With the accelerated pace of sci-entific and technological innovation,the economic policies of all countries in the world are character-ized by uncertainty.How the uncertainty of macro-economic policies will affect the innovation activities of micro enterprises has been a topic of academic interest.This article explores the impact of economic policy uncertainty and internal and external govern-ance factors on enterprises innovation performance based on the data of Chinese listed companies from 2011 to 2020.The study finds that:economic policy uncertainty has a significant facilitating effect on enterprises substantive and strategic innovation per-formance;the external governance factor-environ-mental regulation has a reinforcing effect on this fa-cilitating effect,and the reinforcing effect is mainly reflected in enterprises strategic innovation activities;and the internal governance factor-Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR)has a reinforcing effect on this facilitating effect,both on the performance of substantive innovation and on the performance of strategic innovation,and the reinforcing effect is more pronounced on the performance of substantive innovation;the facilitating effect of economic policy uncertainty on enterprises innovation performance is mainly reflected in the innovation activities of state-owned enterprises,politically unaffiliated enter-prises,and non-high-tech enterprises.The findings of the study help the government to further optimize and adjust economic policies to guide and encourage enterprises to better implement the innovation-driven development strategy by strengthening internal gov-ernance.
Economic policy uncertaintyEnterprise innovation performanceEnvironmental regulationCorporate social responsibility