“…On the other hand, innovation can be carried out using introduced technology to quickly catch up to current technology (Awate et al, 2015; Yu et al, 2019). However, it has also been confirmed that developing countries cannot apply the advanced technology from developed countries sophisticatedly due to the lack of knowledge base and poor absorbing capacity (Fernández & Gavilanes, 2017). Therefore, dedicating to importing external knowledge and technology may also have a negative effect on local innovation capacity (Laursen & Salter, 2006), that is, the reliance on technology introduction may lead to the unbalance of innovation mechanism and the vicious circle of “import‐backward‐reimport” (Yu et al, 2019).…”