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Public data openness promotes both exploratory and exploitative innovation in firms, with a stronger effect on exploitative innovation, by lowering institutional transaction costs and improving information-search efficiency. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine whether and how public data openness influences enterprise ambidextrous innovation by separating outcomes into exploratory and exploitative innovation.

September 8, 2026European Journal of Innovation Management

From “data silos” to “data sharing”: public data openness and enterprise ambidextrous innovation

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HGHeng GuCentral University of Finance and Economics YSYueting ShaoQuzhou University PLPengzhen LiuJinan University

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Quasi-experimental study reveals municipal public data openness fosters enterprise innovation in Chinese firms, highlighting mechanisms of reduced transaction costs and enhanced operational...

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To examine whether and how public data openness influences enterprise ambidextrous innovation by separating outcomes into exploratory and exploitative innovation.
Quasi-natural experiment utilizing the staggered rollout of municipal public data platforms across China.
Multi-period difference-in-differences framework applied to data from Chinese listed firms covering the period from 2007 to 2023.
Supplementary analyses incorporating instrumental variables, mechanism evaluation, cross-sectional heterogeneity, platform quality variations, and peer spillover tests.
Public data openness significantly enhances both exploratory and exploitative innovation, yielding a qualitatively larger increase in exploitative innovation.
Mechanisms operate through decreased institutional transaction costs, reinforced entrepreneurship, increased information-search efficiency, and improved operational efficiency.
Institutional ownership strengthens both forms of innovation, while peer exposure within the same industry is significantly negatively associated with exploratory innovation, reflecting a potential crowding-out effect.

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Gu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9fd83b58e84d0ff5b47a40 https://doi.org/10.1108/ejim-03-2026-0397

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Quasi-experimental study reveals municipal public data openness fosters enterprise innovation in Chinese firms, highlighting mechanisms of reduced transaction costs and enhanced operational...

From “data silos” to “data sharing”: public data openness and enterprise ambidextrous innovation

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From “data silos” to “data sharing”: public data openness and enterprise ambidextrous innovation

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