Abstract:In view of the differences in enterprises' innovation behaviors, this paper discusses the selection effect and mechanism of trade friction on different enterprises' innovation behaviors under the background of increasing uncertainty of international trade environment. Based on the dual-innovation theory, this paper conducts empirical tests on the A-share listed enterprises in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2010 to 2019. The results show that the selection effect of trade friction on dual-innovation behavior of enterprises has a significant promoting effect on breakthrough innovation compared with incremental innovation; trade friction promotes breakthrough innovation by improving enterprises' risk-bearing capacity; the effect of trade friction on exploratory innovation is more significant in the sample with low product market competition degree and non-state-owned enterprises; the degree of financialization has a significant inhibition effect on the positive relationship between trade friction and breakthrough innovation, indicating that enterprises financialization has a substitution effect on innovation activities. Therefore, it is suggested that enterprises should face up to trade friction as both challenge and opportunity, attach importance to balanced breakthrough innovation and incremental innovation, and the government should formulate corresponding innovation incentive policies according to the heterogeneity of enterprises.