Abstract: The forming of new quality productive forces relies on the co-evolution of the knowledge ecosystem, technology application system, and social support system. However, the public-good nature of its core elements, risk asymmetry, and coordination failures lead to systemic market failures. Traditional developmental and regulatory states, constrained by information limitations, institutional lag, and path dependency, struggle to meet the demands of cutting-edge technological innovation. The enabling state, by restructuring the government-market-society interaction, breaks down innovation barriers through mechanisms of knowledge diffusion, risk-sharing, institutional adaptation, and ecosystem evolution. It shifts governance objectives from maintaining efficiency to fostering dynamic capabilities, transforms the governance paradigm from partial correction to systemic synergy, and changes governance tools from administrative intervention to market-based empowerment. The study proposes that the government should build a symbiotic governance system suited to the development of new quality productive forces through governance philosophy transformation, policy tool innovation, digital capacity upgrading, and institutional environment optimization, thereby converting institutional advantages into sustained competitive advantages.

Key words: new quality productive forces, enabling state, government functions, transformation path