How does the enterprise green innovation ecosystem collaborative evolve? Evidence from China

As a special type of innovation ecosystem, enterprise green innovation ecosystem (EGIE) provides important support for the formation and diffusion of green innovation. Facing the complexity of green innovation, the research of enterprise green innovation ecosystem needs to rely on new methods and theories. Based on this, we propose to clarify the evolution mechanism of EGIE through synergetics theory. We establish a three-dimensional dynamic evolution model to describe the interactive relationship among green knowledge creation, green product production and green product commercialization in EGIE and conduct simulation analysis. The research finds that under the effect of environmental regulation (ER), EGIE has a trend of collaborative evolution, in which green knowledge creation and green product commercialization show a significant collaborative relationship, while green product production is relatively stable. The life cycle of EGIE will lead to the difference of collaborative state, and the synergy rate of mature EGIE is the fastest. Under different intensities of ER, the synergistic effect of EGIE is significantly different, and higher intensity of ER is more conducive to the collaborative evolution of EGIE. With this research, the paper promotes the research on the collaborative evolution mechanism of EGIE, provides new perspectives and new methods, and plays a positive role in the collaborative development of EGIE.