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This paper adopts the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis method to carry out an empirical analysis on Chinese latecomer enterprises and examines the key factors and realization paths that affect the technology path transformation of latecomer enterprises. This paper finds that there are configuration characteristics among the influencing factors of the technological path transformation of latecomer enterprises. The paper reveals the causal complexity mechanism of multiple factors that jointly affect technology path transformation. The key factors that affect the technological path transformation of latecomer enterprises include organizational vigilance, strategic transformation capability, network connections breadth, resource governance depth, dynamics of the technological environment, and the scale of social demand for technology. The above factors not only emphasize that latecomer enterprises should focus on new technologies rather than the market but also reveal that strategic transformation capability and resource governance depth are the keys for enterprises to achieve technology path transformation. In addition, it is pointed out that latecomer enterprises should pay attention to the "window of opportunity" brought about by the scale of social demand for technology. The transition from technology path dependence to technology path transformation of latecomer enterprises is a process in which the key factor becomes stronger. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking 22 manufacturing industries of the products for the elderly as the research objects, the process of reachability matrix and grounded theory is used to extract the influencing factors of manufacturing industry innovation system of products for the elderly. They are the completeness of the innovation subject, the ability of the innovation subject, the perfection of the infrastructure, the institutional incentives, the interaction efficiency of the innovation subject, and the degree of lock-in inertia, which are regarded as the condition variables for manufacturing industry innovation system. and the method of fuzzy sets qualitative comparative analysis is used to explore different configuration of conditional variables. The result identifies two configurations, namely, "subject-environment" dual-drive type and "subject-environment-interaction" comprehensive coupling type, which lead to high performance. The result also unfolds two configurations, "resource-oriented" and "technology-locked type," which lead to failure of the innovation system. Multiple paths indicate that diversified innovation-driven combinations can help improve the performance of the manufacturing industry innovation system of the products for the elderly, and the ability of the innovation subject and the interaction efficiency of the innovation subject are the core driving factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]