On Innovation Performance of Low-Carbon Technology Breakthrough Innovation Network in Manufacturing Industry Under the Global Value Chain: A Case Study Based on Chinese Manufacturing Industries

The strengthening scientific and reasonable quantitative evaluation of innovation performance of low-carbon technology breakthrough innovation network in manufacturing industry under the background of economic globalization is of important significance, which can enrich relevant theoretical system of low-carbon technology breakthrough and improve the core competitiveness of Chinese manufacturing industries. In this paper, the scientific and reasonable quantitative evaluation of the innovation performance of low-carbon technology breakthrough innovation network is firstly determined as a dynamic (time-varying) evaluation problem, which involves multi-source influencing factors. Note that many evaluation objects in the innovation performance of an innovation network are gray, ambiguous and dynamic variables, which are difficult to be quantified and the collected industrial data has certain discreteness and fluctuation. Hence, a fuzzy clustering analysis on influencing variables of innovation performance of low-carbon technology innovation network is carried out via the sampling data from 28 manufacturing industries during 2011-2016. Moreover, an innovation performance evaluation model for low-carbon technology innovation network is constructed through analytic hierarchy process (AHP), grey theory and fuzzy clustering analysis. Based on this model, the qualitative and quantitative evaluations of innovation performances of the innovation network before and after low-carbon technology breakthrough are realized. The results show that the low-carbon technology breakthrough innovation has a positive effect on improving the development level of manufacturing industry. In addition, the construction performance evaluation model not only decreases the influences of subjective factors by combining qualitative analysis with quantitative analysis, but also applies the grey theory innovatively to determine the membership matrix. It realizes accurate, systematic and scientific evaluation of the innovation performance of the low-carbon technology breakthrough innovation network in the manufacturing industries. Finally, the research conclusions provide the theoretical and practical references to the strategic arrangement of the low-carbon technology breakthrough innovation in Chinese manufacturing industries.