Digital Transformation,Open Innovation Effectiveness and Enterprise Core Technology Breakthrough
Accelerating digital transformation and promoting open innovation,as important strategies for enterprises to en-hance innovation capabilities,are also crucial for enterprises to promote core technology breakthroughs in the field of manu-facturing.Based on the selection and matching of R&D patent data of enterprises and IPC classification number of core tech-nology patents in the manufacturing field,this paper empirically tests the role of digital transformation in promoting core tech-nology breakthroughs of enterprises and whether open innovation is an effective transmission mechanism of this process by us-ing data of A-share listed enterprises from 2013 to 2021.The results show that digital transformation can help enterprises to promote core technology breakthroughs in the field of manufacturing,and the specific degree of enterprises to promote open innovation will play an intermediary effect mecha-nism in this process,and the effectiveness of technology supplier enterprises,non-state-owned enterprises and enterprises in the eastern region is higher.However,whether enterprises promote open innovation may be affected by their strategic behav-ior,which is not an effective intermediary mechanism.The moderated intermediary effect model is further studied,and it is found that the higher the level of fintech development and intellectual property protection,the stronger the role of open innova-tion under the background of digital transformation in promoting core technology breakthroughs of enterprises.The marginal contributions of this paper are mainly as follows:First,there is little empirical evidence on how to promote core technology innovation in the manufacturing field in the academic circle at present.This paper makes a preliminary at-tempt on how to promote enterprises to achieve key core technology innovation in the manufacturing field through digital trans-formation,and provides a new research idea for enterprises to promote core technology innovation in the manufacturing field through digital transformation.Second,digital transformation,open innovation and core technology innovation performance in the field of enterprise manufacturing are included in the same research framework to explore whether enterprises adopt open innovation strategy and whether the actual promotion degree of open innovation will play an intermediary role in the process of digital transformation promoting core technology breakthrough of enterprises.Finally,it is proved that what is more important in the context of digital transformation is the specific degree and effectiveness of enterprises to promote open innovation.Third,from the perspective of"technology-industry-finance"virtuous cycle in the context of digital transformation,the paper analyzes whether the development level of fintech and intellectual property protection at the city level will play a positive regulatory role in the process of open innovation promoting the core technology breakthrough of enterprises,that is,whether the auxiliary elements of innovation can effectively enable the"new national system".Furthermore,it provides useful counter-measures for the realization of national science and technology self-reliance.
Rigital TransformationCore Technology in Manufacturing FieldOpen InnovationStrategic Behavior