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| Evolution of Innovation Ecosystem of Manufacturing Companies from the Perspective of Digital Empowerment |
| Lin Yan,Zhou Jie |
| (School of Management,Tianjin University of Technology,Tianjin 300384,China) |
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Abstract With the advent of the digital era, the manufacturing industry is in urgent need of being empowered by digital technologies to take the initiative of high-quality development and promote the realization of Made in China 2025.At the same time, driven by the continuous iteration of digital technology empowerment, the borderless, interconnected, and uncertain characteristics of digital technology innovation have transcended the boundaries of traditional innovation theory research on manufacturing enterprises.The independent and internalized innovation development model can no longer adapt to the abrupt changes and iterative technology requirements, and innovation activities are more embedded in the relationship network.More and more manufacturing enterprises gradually form innovation ecosystems in the process of complex interaction and collaborative evolution, and achieve innovation-driven and high-quality development in the dynamic evolution of the system, attracting academic concerns about the evolution of the innovation ecosystem.#br#Regarding the evolution of the innovation ecosystem, both the structure of subjects and resource flow in the system will have an impact on it.Scholars have studied the evolution of the enterprise innovation ecosystem from the perspectives of subject competition and collaboration, population richness, and changes in resource quantity, but have ignored the impact of digital technology development on the innovation ecosystem, and have paid little attention to the evolution of the innovation ecosystem in the new context of digital empowerment.In fact, with the change in the enterprise innovation model, the innovation ecosystem has also become the object of digital empowerment.Psychological empowerment and structural empowerment have an impact on the main structure of the system, while resource empowerment has an impact on the flow of resources in the system.This paper studies the development of the innovation ecosystem of Haier Group, a leading manufacturing enterprise, in the new context of digital empowerment, striving to open the "black box" of the relationship between digital empowerment and the evolution of the innovation ecosystem in attempts to promote manufacturing enterprises to effectively utilize the digital technologies to empower the innovation ecosystem, promote system evolution, and gain competitive advantages.#br#With the analysis of empowering behaviors and outcomes of key events at different stages of system development, the study indicates firstly that the evolution of Haier Group's innovation ecosystem has undergone three stages: ecosystem prototype, platform construction, and interstellar ecology, which is an evolutionary process from 0 to 1 and then to N.Psychological empowerment, structural empowerment, and resource empowerment respectively play the roles of endogenous dynamics, preconditions, and key drivers in the evolution of the innovation ecosystem, deepening the understanding of endogenous dynamics, preconditions, and key drivers in the evolution of the innovation ecosystem.Secondly, the analysis confirms that digital empowerment behaviors differ at different stages of the system evolution and produce different empowerment results.In the embryonic stage of the ecosystem, psychological empowerment and structural empowerment promote the transformation of members' thinking, while structural empowerment and resource empowerment promote the acquisition of innovative resources; in the platform construction stage, it mainly relies on the digital platform to play a role.Psychological empowerment and structural empowerment promote the improvement of the connectivity ability of the innovation ecosystem, while structural empowerment and resource empowerment jointly promote the improvement of intelligent capabilities; in the interstellar ecological stage, psychological empowerment promotes the enhancement of members' sense of efficacy, structural empowerment promotes the enhancement of system attractiveness and the breaking of boundary barriers, and resource empowerment promotes value-added sharing and value circulation.#br#The main contribution of this study is its focus on the role of digital empowerment in the evolution of the manufacturing enterprise innovation ecosystem from the perspective of digital empowerment with consideration of both subject and resource aspects,which makes up for the problem of a single perspective and single dimension in existing research.Meanwhile, in addition to the single-case longitudinal research method, the event system theory and method are also applied to make the evolution research of the innovation ecosystem more scientific and present a clearer explanation of the evolution laws of the system.At the same time, it also expands the research ideas and methods of the innovation ecosystem of manufacturing enterprises.#br#
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Received: 16 January 2023
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