In the context of open innovation, China's science and technology leading enterprises are encountering increasingly
complex blockades and challenges initiated by innovation ecosystem led by foreign leading enterprises in terms
of technological innovation and ecological expansion. How to break through the increasingly severe "strangle hold"
blockade and achieve breakthrough technological innovation in the innovation ecosystem led by foreign leading enterprises
is an important issue that needs to be solved by China's science and technology leading enterprises.
Huawei is selected as the case study object to successfully solve the "strangle hold" dilemma through breakthrough
technological innovation under the "strangle hold" situation of technical blockade and ecological challenges in the 5G complex
product system manufacturing field. Based on the procedural rooting method, referring to the "context-action" analysis
logic, following the event system theory, and starting from the perspective of the innovation ecosystem, this research
makes a single case study of the fundamental causes, stage characteristics, breakthrough methods and breakthrough results
of the "strangle hold" situation encountered by China's science and technology leading enterprises, and the breakthrough
technological innovation path of the science and technology leading enterprises in the "strangle hold" situation is reviewed
and depicted.
Research findings: (1) The "strangle hold" situation triggers the organization dynamic evolution, value network innovation
and technological paradigm change of the science and technology leading enterprises. The three elements stimulate
each other and evolve synergistically, which successively experiences four stages: "embryonic stage→development
stage→growth stage→expansion stage", and continues to promote the science and technology leading enterprises to
achieve breakthrough technological innovation; (2) The essence of "strangle hold" is not just a competition between key
core technologies, but has evolved into the battle of innovation ecosystem. Before breaking through the technical blockade,
the key core technologies of the science and technology leading enterprises are "blocked", and after mastering the key
core technologies, the science and technology leading enterprises are "blocked" by ecology; (3) The change of the innovation
niche of China's science and technology leading enterprises in the innovation ecosystem led by foreign leading enterprises
conforms to the development logic of "ecosystem periphery→ecosystem sub-periphery→trend to ecosystem core
(occupy strategic niche)→ecosystem core (occupy key structural hole)". The transformation of species attributes conforms
to the evolutionary process of "low (parasitic) innovation species→intermediate (symbiotic) innovation species→high
(competitive) innovation species→top (dominant) innovation species"; (4) From technological blockade to ecological repression
and then to ecological expulsion, the innovation ecosystem led by foreign leading enterprises implements the
"strangle hold" blockade step by step through the path of "upstream of the innovation chain→downstream of the innovation
chain→adoption chain→innovative survival resources". While through the way of "self-creating ecological alternative
species→cultivating ecological alternative population→self-creating innovation ecosystem→creating ecological breakthrough
population", the science and technology leading enterprises can solve the problems step by step according to the
breakthrough technological innovation path of "key core technology→complementary technology→original technology→
technology application scenario".
Practical enlightenment for science and technology leading enterprises: (1) Take precautions to self-create key ecological
alternative species, and prepare for danger under the conditions of relatively stable international environment and
relatively ideal corporate revenue performance to create a "spare tire"; (2) Cultivate ecological alternative population
based on integrated innovation, enhance the flexible connection ability of technology and organization, form deep value
co-creation with domestic enterprises providing complementary assets, and systematically improve the level of domestic
substitution; (3) Layout innovation ecosystem based on autonomy and controllability, consolidate the "technology base" of
the independent technology system, and build a "powerful ecosystem" capable of resisting external systemic challenges
under the dual incentives of "promising government" and "effective market"; (4) Create ecological breakthrough population
based on scenario-driven, fully connect the unmet market demand with the "short and powerful" parallel organization
form, and stimulate the autonomous and controllable innovation ecosystem to generate more innovation resources.
