Artificial intelligence empowerment: The impact of research and development investment on green radical innovation in high‐tech enterprises

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an important driving force leading the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation worldwide. AI empowers green radical innovation (GRI), a vital strategic orientation for high‐tech enterprises. To explore the relationship between research and development (R&D) investment and GRI and identify the contingency factors that affect the relationship, this paper proposes a framework and conducts a survey to test it. The findings indicate that R&D investment and GRI have an inverted U‐shaped relationship, that organizational learning meditates the relationship and that management process innovation and organization structure innovation moderate the relationship positively and negatively, respectively. The findings clarify the intermediate mechanism of the transformation from R&D investment to GRI. They will help high‐tech enterprises improve their innovation ability and achieve technological leapfrogging and sustainable development in the context of AI and the green economy.