关键词: 网络关系, 技术生态位, 态势, 战略生态位管理, Network relationship, Technology niche, Status, Strategic Niche Management

Abstract: For the past few years, technology niche, which is the core content in Strategic Niche Management theory, has been used by increasing number of scholars to study the development of emerging new industries. This article brings the concept of status into technology niche to analyze three niche mechanisms, namely willingness, power and knowledge, from the perspective of network, on the basis of which elaborating the four stages of technology niches’ status. Taking new-energy vehicle industry in the three provinces in northeast of China as the subject of study, the niche statuses affected by three mechanisms in the three provinces are separately addressed based on the survey. The empirical results indicate that these three provinces all possess growing niche networks and developing niche status. Liaoning Province reaches the full status, while Jilin Province is in the proto status, and Heilongjiang Province is just in the stage of embryonic. In accordance with the empirical results, this article proposes developing suggestions for the four stages of niche status, giving some useful explorations into the technology niches theory’s application in China’s regional new industries’ practice.