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Abstract Most of the literature on absorptive capability has focused on the organizational rather than the individual level.By examining absorptive capacity at the individual in the dimensions of identification, assimilation and utilization of external knowledge, this paper is affiliated with the original roots of the concept.It studies that three dimensions' relationships to both exploratory and exploitative innovation after collecting and analyzing quantitative data of 113 technology managers from Shanghai, Chongqing, Xi'an, Guangzhou, Changsha.The empirical result indicates that individual identification contributes to both exploratory and exploitative innovation; individual assimilation leads to the difference between innovation's ambidexterity: exploratory requires individual assimilation whereas exploitative innovation does not; individual utilization contributes to neither.This paper provides managers some implications to encourage individual's absorptive properly to promote firms' dual innovation.
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| Fund:国家社会科学基金重大项目（12&ZD073）；国家创新方法工作专项项目（2015IM020400） |
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