Abstract: The establishment and continuous development of a digital innovation ecosystem is an important approach to conforming to the trend of the digital economy era and promoting the rapid development and transformation of enterprises. However, few studies have focused on the significant influence of governance systems on the evolution of digital innovation ecosystems. This paper takes manufacturing enterprises as the research object and explores the development of the governance system of the digital innovation ecosystem they have established. The following conclusions are drawn: (1) The governance system of the digital innovation ecosystem, based on the hierarchical theory, goes through three stages: “strong stability governance (weak innovation governance) -stability and innovation governance synergy-strong innovation governance (weak stability governance)”. In each stage, detailed governance also has hierarchical governance capabilities. (2) Based on the dynamic capability theory, this paper studies the governance system existing in the evolution process of the digital innovation system, proposes a governance system model based on the evolution process of digital governance dynamic capabilities, and analyzes the primary and secondary levels of governance capabilities in different stages and summarizes them. This paper reveals the dynamic adjustment rules of the governance system of the digital innovation ecosystem of manufacturing enterprises. Through the coupling research of dynamic capability theory and digital innovation ecosystem theory, it expands the research boundary and provides certain guidance for manufacturing enterprises to establish the governance system of the digital innovation ecosystem.

Key words: digital innovation ecosystems, dynamic capabilities, governance systems, manufacturing firms, case studies