Studies in Science of Science ›› 2026, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (3): 586-598.

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Research on the impact of policy coupling synergy paths on innovation performance: a case study of China's hydrogen energy industry

  

  • Received:2024-12-18 Revised:2025-05-14 Online:2026-03-15 Published:2026-03-15

政策耦合协同路径对创新绩效的影响研究———以我国氢能产业为例

张启媛1,王宏起1,杨仲基1,李晓莉2,杨丹3   

  1. 1. 哈尔滨理工大学
    2. 哈尔滨理工大学经济与管理学院
    3.
  • 通讯作者: 王宏起
  • 基金资助:
    新兴产业创新生态系统综合优势形成机理、实现路径与政策研究:数字化创新视角;知识耦合视角下企业创新联合体的融通创新生态系统运行研究;区域数字创新生态系统形成机理、培育模式与激励政策研究

Abstract: With the acceleration of the global technological and industrial transformation, future industries have become a new track in international competition, and the construction and improvement of the future industry innovation ecosystems are crucial to a country’s long-term competitiveness. China has repeatedly proposed to plan ahead and actively cultivate future industries, and the Report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to “improve the scientific and technological innovation system and form an open innovation ecosystem with global competitiveness”. Under the New System for Nationwide Resource Mobilization, the government is the architect of the future industry innovation ecosystems, and giving full play to the role of the government is an important strategic support and institutional guarantee for promoting industrial innovation relying on disruptive technologies. As a key instrument and carrier for the government, policy plays a vital role. According to the policy synergy theory, the internal friction within the system caused by policy conflicts and the offset of effectiveness will reduce the overall implementation effect, and single or partial policies are difficult to provide a complete policy blueprint for the construction of an efficiently integrated the future industry innovation ecosystems. Policy coupling and synergy help to break down barriers and restrictions and rapidly improve innovation performance. Insufficient coupling and synergy will restrict the systematic nature of policy formulation and the efficiency of implementation, and become a potential obstacle to China’s construction of a global competitive advantage in future industries, urgently requiring systematic research to provide theoretical basis and practical guidance. Therefore, the structural coupling and synergy of policies are crucial for the cultivation of a multi-dimensional future industry innovation ecosystem. This paper aims to answer the question of how the core network affects innovation performance through what kind of policy coupling and synergy transmission path. Taking China's hydrogen energy industry as an example, this paper quantifies policies based on the research framework of “knowledge-entrepreneurship-business”, constructs a theoretical model of the policy coupling and synergy path of the multi-dimensional innovation ecosystem, uses the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling(PLS-SEM) to construct and verify the transmission path of hydrogen energy policies from 1995 to 2023 that affect innovation performance through coupling and synergy, and uses social network analysis to study the relationships among government departments. The research finds that the coupling and synergy among policies at all levels have a positive impact on innovation performance, the coupling degree remains stable at an intermediate coordination state, and the synergy degree improves slowly with an overall poor performance; in the transmission path of “policy formulation→coupling and synergy→innovation performance”, the influence coefficients in descending order are the business-driven business-innovation coupling and synergy, the business-leading business-knowledge coupling and synergy, the knowledge-dominated knowledge-business coupling and synergy, the entrepreneurship-catalyzing entrepreneurship-business coupling and synergy, the entrepreneurship-boosting entrepreneurship-knowledge coupling and synergy, and the knowledge-supporting knowledge-entrepreneurship coupling and synergy; the policy network presents a “core-middle-edge” structure, playing the roles of leading and guiding, supporting and coordinating, and serving and supervising respectively in policy formulation. This paper provides a reference for the hierarchical structure quantification research of future industry policies, makes up for the deficiencies in the research on the transmission path of policy coupling and synergy, and contributes to government decision-making and industrial practice.

摘要: 政策的结构性耦合协同对培育多维未来产业创新生态系统至关重要。基于“知识—创业—商业”的研究框架量化政策,运用偏最小二乘结构方程模型(PLS-SEM)构建并验证1995-2023年氢能政策通过耦合协同影响创新绩效的传导路径,运用社会网络分析政府部门间关系。研究发现:各层面政策间的耦合协同对创新绩效均有正向影响,耦合度稳定在中级协调状态,协同度提升缓慢且整体表现不佳;在“政策制定→耦合协同→创新绩效”的传导路径中,影响系数由大到小依次为商业驱动型商创耦合协同、商业牵引型商知耦合协同、知识主导型知商耦合协同、创业催化型创商耦合协同、创业助推型创知耦合协同和知识支撑型知创耦合协同;政策网络呈“核心—中间—边缘”结构,在政策制定中分别起到主导与引领、支撑与配合、服务与监督的作用。这为未来产业政策的层次性结构量化研究提供了参考,弥补了政策耦合协同传导路径研究的不足,助力政府决策和产业实践。