Abstract:The entry of foreign enterprises into the host country may trigger competitive effects within a certain geographical range, prompting indigenous enterprises to engage in innovation knowledge search and interaction with geographically proximate foreign enterprises, and to carry out effective innovation activities. However, existing research has not considered the relationship between the connections between indigenous and foreign enterprises in the context of the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) technology spillovers and indigenous enterprise innovation. To address this, based on organizational relationship theory and financial supply theory, and using data from Chinese A-share listed companies from 2010 to 2020, this study deeply analyzes the impact of FDI technology spillovers on enterprise innovation. It explores the potential mechanisms of FDI technology spillovers on enterprise innovation from two perspectives: innovation cooperation and proximity competition, and examines the heterogeneous impact of enterprise ownership structure. The results show that there is a positive "U"-shaped relationship between FDI technology spillovers and indigenous enterprise innovation, with the sample mean located on the right side of the curve, indicating that FDI technology spillovers promote an increase in the quantity and quality of innovation for the majority of indigenous enterprises. Enterprise innovation cooperation only increases the quantity of enterprise innovation but has no significant effect on the quality of innovation. Enterprise proximity competition can effectively enhance the benefits of FDI spillovers on the improvement of innovation quality. FDI technology spillovers only have a positive impact on the quantity of innovation in state-owned enterprises, while FDI technology spillovers significantly affect both the quantity and quality of innovation in non-state-owned enterprises, with proximity competition playing an important role in this process.