Taking listed companies in Innovative Pilot Enterprises published by Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China

State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and All China Federation of Trade Unions as research samples

using panel data from 2010 to 2017

researching the influence of customer concentration on enterprise dual innovation through panel threshold regression method

and analyzing different financial slack enterprises' choice facing enterprise dual innovation

this paper get some conclusions. First

the relationship between customer concentration and financial slack is inverted U relationship. Customer concentration has more obvious influence on exploratory innovation. Second

when high customer concentration has negative influence on enterprise dual innovation

high financial slack enterprise prefers to choose exploratory innovation. Meanwhile

low financial slack enterprise prefers to choose exploitative innovation because of resource shortage. Research conclusions provide management decision foundation for balanced development of Chinese enterprise dual innovation. Meanwhile

they provide policy suggestions for government incentive policies for innovation.