Abstract:    With the advent of Industry 5.0, the rapid development of AI and big data technology, technological enterprises will face a more intensely competitive environment and severely practical challenges. The development of science and technology has made Chinese technological enterprises became one of the bases for global manufacturing. How can we stay in an invincible position in a more complex and effective global competitive environment? It is not only the focus of enterprise management, but also a topic of concern to scholars.
     Knowledge absorptive capacity reflects the process of identifying new knowledge, absorbing new knowledge and applying it to achieve organizational goals, which can improve organizational innovation and flexibility, and make the enterprises more competitive. At present, most researches on knowledge absorptive capacity focuses on the enterprise level, expecting to increase exploratory learning in order to increase the ability of identifying entrepreneurial opportunities, and increase exploitative learning to stimulate the ability of utilize opportunities. There is a lack of empirical research at the individual level of employee. This study focuses on employees′ individual knowledge absorptive capacity, explores how individual knowledge absorptive capacity affects innovation performance, studies the relationships among variables, influencing factors and action mechanisms, and integrates employees′ perceived innovation atmosphere, leadership support, motivation and encouragement, by introducing cultural factors into the study to explore the influence mechanism of innovation climate, which is an important antecedent variable of innovation performance.
     By means of the methodology of literature review and theoretical research, this paper puts forward a hypothesis on the relationships among innovation climate, knowledge absorptive capacity and innovation performance. Moreover, the questionnaire survey method was used to collect the data in the technological enterprises in China. The SPSS22.0 software was used for statistical analysis to verify the hypothesis and the following empirical conclusions were drawn out: the innovation climate positively affects knowledge absorptive capacity and innovation performance; the knowledge absorptive capacity positively affects the innovation performance; and the knowledge absorptive capacity has a partially mediating effect between innovation climate and innovation performance. The research results provide a reference for technological enterprises to improve employees′ knowledge reserve, learning ability and innovation performance.
     The conclusions of this study include: if employees feel more care from their bosses, colleagues, teams at work, they will be promoted to use, explore and share knowledge more actively, create an innovative atmosphere, and generate more innovative behaviors, such as inventing new products, provide new services and create new ideas. For employees at work, being good at exploring knowledge and using knowledge in practice (such as learning from other corporate experiences, organizing team interaction activities, regularly exchanging ideas between departments, etc.) will help to enhance innovative behaviors, thereby improve innovation performance. The higher the level of support for employees by leaders, colleagues or subordinates, the more efforts employees will perform at work to gain praise and affirmation from leaders and colleagues, thereby motivating them to improve their innovative performance and the stronger the organization′s dependence and emotional commitment; the task support is accompanied by the accurate grasp of the employees′ own internal motivation, and can clearly judge the tasks and goals of individuals and organizations, so that the level of employee innovation performance has been improved.
     There are some inspirations that can be learned from this study. First, the enterprises should create a strong innovation atmosphere within the organization, reward or appreciate employees′ innovative achievements, encourage innovative spirit, evaluate and provide feedback for the effect of employees′ innovative behavior, and build an external environment that supports innovation, such as seminars, training sessions, lectures and academic sharing. Second, knowledge absorptive capacity is enhanced through knowledge transformation processes such as exploratory learning and utilization learning. Exploratory learning learns new knowledge from the outside, while utilization learning realizes knowledge integration and renovation. The effective combination of these two learning processes can achieve the effect of enhancing innovation performance. Third, in the process of individual work and teamwork, employees should focus on interaction, learning and communication with other members, efficient transfer of differentiated knowledge among different members, and development of trust among members for knowledge acquisition, transfer and sharing mechanism, maintain the frequency of active communication between leaders and employees, and encourage employees to communicate in depth through appropriate theme meetings, weekly regular meetings or brainstorming, so as to help employees improve their innovation level.

Key words:  technological enterprise, innovation climate, knowledge absorptive capacity, innovation performance