知识过滤对医药企业原始性创新影响的实证分析

Investigating the antecedents of firms' original innovation and elucidating its underlying mechanisms constitute a critical issue that demands urgent attention from both the academia and practice. This paper theoretically explores and empirically examines the impact of knowledge filtering on original innovation, integrating knowledge spillover entrepreneurship theory and the literature on firm innovation. It further investigates the moderating impacts of organizational and institutional factors on this relationship. Based on paired survey data from 165 pharmaceutical firms in China, the analysis reveals that knowledge filtering negatively affects a firm's original innovation. Moreover, organizational factors, such as knowledge codification and coordination mechanisms, amplify this negative impact, while institutional factors, such as policy support and institutional trust, mitigate it. The paper significantly expands the scope of research on knowledge filtering, addresses the existing literature's insufficient focus on the knowledge utilization phase of original innovation, and defines boundary conditions for the relationship between knowledge filtering and original innovation.