Research on the main characteristics and cultivation paths of innovation ecology supporting future industry development

Future industry is a key field that drives the transformational innovation and development of the economy and society, leading the development of global science and technology frontiers. However, the development process of future industries is also accompanied by new problems that jeopardize the innovation ecosystem, such as high risk and destructiveness, which put forward new requirements for the protection of the elements of the innovation ecosystem, such as supporting facilities for industries, synergy of strategic scientific and technological subjects, and endogenous impetus for scientific and technological innovation. Based on an analysis of the connotation, characteristics and development law of the future industry, this paper explored the objective requirements and challenges brought by the future industry to the current innovation ecology. It also probed into the innovation elements required for a good innovation ecology in the future industry. Considering the current conditions of innovation ecology in China, the paper puts forward corresponding suggestions from four aspects: factor support and talent guarantee, industrial coordination of strategic scientific and technological forces, stimulation of internal impetus for innovation, as well as opening-up and international cooperation. These suggestions may provide reference for making policies to foster and create an innovation ecology that is suitable for continuous and ordered development of the future industry.