Abstract:Module partners" involvement in the early development of R D innovation plays an indispensable role during the process of industry-university-institute collaboration innovation cycle. Under the background where the domestics and overseas promote the industry-university-institute collaboration innovation mode vigorously, this paper first summarizes the relevant research and industrialization status of the industry-university-institute collaboration innovation, then analyzes module partners" characteristics at different levels in conjunction with the theory of modularization. Moving forward, the “Module Interface” concept is introduced which can enable enterprises absorb external resources to submit innovation solutions. Moreover, the management strategy of module partners is studied, in which a module partner embedded model concerning the industry-university-institute collaboration innovation is constructed.. In addition, the operation mechanism of module partner supporting enterprise’s technology innovation is also discussed. In the final, a smart TV case is given in order to further explain the applicability of the mentioned theory.