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As the main direction of a new round of industrial technology reform, the intelligent manufacturing industry has become an important trend in the transformation and development of China's manufacturing industry. It provides a new way for manufacturing industry in China to get rid of the low-end position in the global value chain distribution, enhance its competitive advantage, and realize the fundamental reversal from the low-end to the high-end. The continuous realization of intelligent process is inseparable from the innovation and diffusion of intelligent technology. Based on this, the moderated mediation model was constructed to study the sustainable mechanism of technological innovation diffusion on the intelligent transformation of manufacturing enterprises, and the specific path of technological innovation diffusion influencing the intelligent transformation of manufacturing enterprises was clarified, through the rise of value chains under the effect of competitive advantage. Using 257 valid samples of survey data to test the moderating effect model with mediation. The results show that: (1) Technological innovation diffusion has a significantly positive impact on the intelligent transformation of manufacturing enterprises; (2) The climbing of value chains can partially mediate the sustainable mechanism between technological innovation diffusion and intelligent transformation; (3) Competitive advantage plays a moderating role in the process of technological innovation diffusion, influencing value-chain climbing. With the continuous improvement of enterprise competitive advantage, the impact of technological innovation diffusion on the rise of the value chain gradually decreases; (4) The intermediary role of value chain climbing in the relationship between technological innovation diffusion and intelligent transformation was regulated by competitive advantage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental technology is the core power for environmental protection enterprise. Top management team (TMT) has an important impact on developing direction of environmental technology. In this paper, environmental protection enterprises in China are selected as samples to examine that how does cognitive diversity of TMT affect the directions of environmental technology. Environmental technology is divided into acquisition of environmental patent and independent environmental innovation. It finds that cognitive diversity has positive impacts on acquisition of environmental patent and independent environmental innovation. It also shows that environmental protection enterprise develops new environmental technology through acquisition of environmental patent. We further explore the role of ability of information identification on environmental technology. The results demonstrate that there is a promotional effect of cognitive diversity on acquisition of environmental patent and independent environmental innovation by promoting ability of information identification. Finally, the results of heterogeneity analysis show that cognitive diversity in those environmental protection enterprises with high-level technology has a significant effect on independent environmental innovation. However, for those enterprises who has no high-level technology, cognitive diversity of TMT plays a positive role on acquisition of environmental patent through ability of information identification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]