In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to the behavior of financial asset investment in China's real economy.Innovation is vital to the growth and sustainable development of enterprises and is considered the "power source" for promoting the growth of the real economy.But innovation requires a large amount of continuous capital investment, and innovation output lags significantly behind the returns brought by financial asset investment.#br#Thus, this paper analyzes the issue from the following four aspects.First of all, the financialization of real enterprises is a process in which the impact of financial investment on the economic activities of real enterprises continues to deepen.In terms of specific performance, "financialization" refers to the proportion of financial instruments or financial assets in the assets of the enterprise.The higher the proportion, the deeper the financialization of the enterprise.Second, Schumpeter's growth theory believes that endogenous R&D and innovation are important internal factors for enterprises to obtain core competitiveness and achieve sustainable growth, and innovation is a high-risk long-term investment.Third, financing constraints are common financing problems encountered by enterprises in the process of operation and development.The financing constraints of enterprises are serious, and the capital market in China is in need of improvement.Finally, upstream suppliers, enterprises, and downstream customers form a complete supply chain.Commercial credit extends the product market power among enterprises to the financing field and realizes the internal capital flow of the industrial supply chain.#br#In practice, enterprises generally use commercial credit as an important business strategy to respond to product market competition, access scarce material resources, and promote enterprise sales.Enterprises will not only use the commercial credit provided by upstream suppliers to form commercial credit financing, but also provide commercial credit to customers to form commercial credit supply.Commercial credit financing and commercial credit supply are rooted in the supply chain, reflecting the business relationships and financing dependence among enterprises in the supply chain.Therefore, this paper aims to study the relationship among enterprise financialization, financing constraints and innovation investment, and further from the perspective of supply chain, examine the different regulatory effects of financing constraints on the mediating effect of enterprise financialization and innovative investment by examining the level of commercial credit financing obtained from upstream suppliers and the degree of commercial credit supply provided to downstream customers.#br#In this paper, from the perspective of the supply chain, A-share listed companies from 2007 to 2021 are taken as samples.The study empirically analyzes the micro mechanism of enterprise financialization on innovation investment.The results show that enterprise financialization significantly promotes enterprise investment in innovation, and this conclusion remains robust after accounting for endogeneity.The mechanism analysis shows that financialization promotes innovative investment by alleviating financing constraints.This conclusion is robust even after replacing different measures and excluding special samples.Further considering the moderating effect of commercial credit financing and commercial credit supply, it is found that when the level of enterprise commercial credit financing is higher, the role of enterprise financialization in alleviating financing constraints is stronger, and the corresponding role in promoting innovation investment is stronger.When the degree of commercial credit supply is higher, the inhibition of enterprise financing constraints on innovation investment is stronger.Further, the heterogeneity analysis is carried out from two perspectives: property rights and the age characteristics of enterprises.It is found that for non-state-owned enterprises and enterprises with 11–20 years of history, the financialization of enterprises has played a more significant role in promoting innovative investment by alleviating financing constraints.#br#Finally, policy suggestions are put forward to help enterprises achieve innovation, such as establishing a financial service system to support innovation, forming a stable industrial supply chain alliance, and making effective use of commercial credit, that is, improving the level of commercial credit financing from the upstream of the supply chain, and reducing the degree of commercial credit supply to the downstream of the supply chain.#br#
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