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| Technology Integration Capability, Green Patent Quality and Firms' Sustainable Innovation |
| Zhao Yan1,Qi Niannian1,Meng Qingshi1,2 |
| (1.School of Management, Shanghai University;2.School of Cultural Heritage and Information Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China) |
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Abstract In the context of open innovation and sustainable development, firms' sustainable innovation has a far-reaching impact on ensuring the long-term viability of firms, helping firms obtain competitive advantages, and thus achieving sustainable development. Meanwhile, as an important external technology acquisition mode, the technology integration capability can affect the enthusiasm and sustainability of firms' further innovation. Therefore, how to reasonably use technology integration capability to help firms' sustainable innovation is increasingly important. However, the prior research on technology integration capability neglects that excessive technology integration capability may reduce the enthusiasm and sustainability of innovation of firms. Thus it is urgent to discuss whether and how technology integration capability affects firms' sustainable innovation. Then in the setting of dual carbon and high-quality development, green patent quality is the core indicator to measure the quality of patents with green technology as the theme of the invention.It is vital for the achievement of the dual carbon goals and firms' sustainable development to find out how to use technology integration capability to improve green patent quality and then help firms' sustainable innovation. But the existing research is unclear on how the technology integration capability affects green patent quality and whether it will further affect firms' sustainable innovation. Third, under the background of open innovation and sustainable development, the 2-model alliance innovation network is composed of the firms participating in the alliance, their affiliated alliances and the affiliation relationship between firms and the alliance, and it is an important channel for the firms participating in the alliance to obtain external technology and other resources. The firm's centrality in the 2-mode alliance innovation network is an important indicator that describes the numbers of subordinate alliances of firms in the 2-mode alliance innovation network. It reflects the firm's position characteristics and power among participants at different levels in the 2-model alliance innovation network. According to the social network theory and resource-based theory, firms with higher centrality in the 2-model alliance innovation network can obtain or use more high-quality innovation resources and innovation policies faster by close contact and communication with more related firms and alliances. However, the possible moderating effects of the firm's centrality in the 2-mode alliance innovation network on the relationship among technology integration capability and green patent quality, technology integration capability and firms' sustainable innovation are still unclear.
Addressing the above issues, this study for the first time integrates technology integration capability, green patent quality, and firms' sustainable innovation into the same research framework. Meanwhile, following the dynamic capability theory, firm sustainable innovation theory, green technology innovation theory, social network theory, etc, this paper uses the data of 232 high-tech listed firms from 2009 to 2019 and the comprehensive feasible generalized least squares method to explore the internal mechanism and boundary conditions on which technology integration capability influences firms' sustainable innovation.
It is found that technology integration capability has an inverted U-shaped relationship with firms' sustainable innovation; technology integration capability has an inverted U-shaped relationship with green patent quality, and green patent quality plays a mediating role in the inverted U-shaped relationship between technology integration capability and firms' sustainable innovation; centrality plays a positive moderation role in the inverted U-shaped relationship between technology integration capability and firms' sustainable innovation, but it has not played a positive moderation role in the inverted U-shaped relationship between technology integration capability and green patent quality. In short, the conclusions can provide theoretical guidance for high-tech firms to rationally adjust their technology integration capability to improve green patent quality, and then realize firms' sustainable innovation.
The contributions can be summarized as follows. First, this study expands the research scope of the mechanism of technology integration capability, and enriches the research on the motivation of firms' sustainable innovation from the perspective of dynamic capability theory. Second, it breaks through the limitations of existing research on technology integration capability and green patent quality, and opens the "black box" that technology integration capability affects green patent quality. Third, from the perspective of social network theory, it enriches the research on the scenario mechanism of the relationship between technology integration capability and green patent quality, technology integration capability and firms' sustainable innovation.
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Received: 26 May 2022
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