Abstract:     Innovation, as the primary driving force for development, is a crucial power in propelling China′s economic construction. However, Chinese enterprises still face numerous challenges such as weak innovation capabilities, insufficient continuous innovation, and low coordinated innovation abilities. With the deepening of enterprise informatization processes, digital and intelligent empowerment has become a new driving force for enterprises to enhance their innovative capabilities and gain sustainable competitive advantages. Based on the resource orchestration theory and the innovation ecosystem theory, following the TOE framework and using 275 computer, communication, and electronic equipment manufacturing enterprises as examples, this paper employed the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method to investigate various linkage path combinations through which digital and intelligent empowerment can achieve dual innovation in enterprises. The study found that: Firstly, technical level, organizational characteristics, and environmental features cannot individually serve as necessary conditions for achieving high dual innovation; they need to work synergistically. Secondly, exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation have differentiated driving paths. Specifically, there are three driving paths for exploratory innovation: the technology research and development-driven type under the dual logic of organization and environment, the digital and intelligent executive-driven type under the dual logic of technology and environment, and the triple driving type under the logic of technology, organization, and environment; while there is one driving path for exploitative innovation: the dual driving type under the logic of technology and organization. Under digital and intelligent empowerment, the driving paths for exploratory innovation are more diverse, and the development of innovation based on entirely new concepts or technological paradigms relies more heavily on the synergistic linkage between different digital and intelligent conditions. Thirdly, technical conditions are a critical core condition for developing high dual innovation; when technical conditions are sufficiently superior, organizational and environmental conditions exhibit a substitutive relationship and can interact with technical conditions to jointly promote high dual innovation development. This research will help deepen the understanding of the complex paths of enterprise dual innovation and thus provide significant insights for policy formulation.

Key words: digitalization and intelligence enabling, dual innovation, configuration path, TOE framework, computer enterprise