关键词: 探索, 开发, 外部技术搜寻, 搜寻平衡

Abstract: This study is determined to analyze the external technology search balance from the perspective of exploration-exploitaion balance approach in organization ambidexterity through technology licensing-ins pertaining to Chinese indigenous firms. Based on the registered records of patent technology licensing agreements by the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China, the empirical analyses places these firms in a multi-dimensional technological space with three dimensions, i.e. geographical distance, time distance and cognitive distance. Through statistic analyses, it has been found that: (1) the enterprises’ external technology search balance exists in the multi-dimensional space; (2) among these three dimensions, the substitution effect between geographical distance and time distance is more significant; (3) compared to Small- and Medium-sized enterprises, more Large-scale companies choose external technology licesing-ins with large cognitive distance.