Innovation is the inexhaustible driving force for enterprise development, and knowledge is the prerequisite for enterprises to achieve innovation. Therefore, external knowledge search has become an inevitable choice for enterprise innovation and development. This article starts with technology-based enterprises, dividing external knowledge search into search width and search depth, studying the impact of the two on enterprise innovation performance, and studying the mediating effect of absorption capacity and the moderating effect of innovation willingness. The results indicate that the width and depth of external knowledge search have a positive impact on the innovation performance of enterprises; The absorptive capacity plays a mediating role between external knowledge search and enterprise innovation performance; The willingness to innovate plays a moderating role between external knowledge search and the innovation performance of enterprises.

Sun Tongtong, Du Xuejing. Research on the Impact of External Knowledge Search on Innovation in Technological Enterprises. Academic Journal of Business & Management (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 16: 1-6. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2023.051601.

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