Abstract:The deep merge between sci tech and social development makes a nation’s sustainable development more dependent on innovation. The evaluate for basic conditions and efforts on innovation development forced diversified comprehension to national innovation such as angle of ability, knowledge productivity as well as competitiveness. In order to better explore innovation elements and environment growing, this study introduce the innovation ecology theory, and take its exposition, of which related to “co-evolution” among innovators, elements and its external environment, as lessons. A self-organizing understanding framework for national innovation ecosystem was given: through the interaction of system service provides and driving force changes, the goal of mature ecosystem finally achieve. We integrate this target into evolving factor conditions as environment, institution, resource, talent and market, and set up evaluation index system accordingly. In the specific indicators choosing, we pay more attention to describe the growing of innovation, and its upgrade effect for industry and society. The formation of evaluation theory and system can help to measure innovation ecological maturity of countries, comparative each advantage and shortage, and then provide empirical basis for strategic policy thinking.