Abstract: Purpose/Significance With the worsening and prominent environmental problems, how to drive enterprises to carry out ecological innovation has become a hot issue for scholars. Design/Methodology First, the theoretical basis of the driving mechanism of enterprise ecological innovation is combed from five different disciplines or theoretical perspectives, and then the related research on the types of ecological innovation of different enterprises and the driving factors of different stages of ecological innovation are summarized. Finally, A brief review and prospects of existing researches are carried out. Findings/Conclusions This paper clarifies the types of enterprise ecological innovation and the stages of ecological innovation corresponding to different driving factors, and proposes the direction for further deepening the research on the driving mechanism of enterprise ecological innovation in the future.