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Traditional actors like enterprises and universities struggle due to the inherent imbalance of ambidextrous capability. Developed countries (e.g., Germany\u2019s Fraunhofer, Finland\u2019s VTT) have achieved integration through new-type research organizations, but rely on a \u201cstatic coordination\u201d model across departments ill-suited for rapidly changing, multi-logic environments. In contrast, China\u2019s new-type R&amp;D institutions (NTRI), emerging as innovative organizations, are naturally equipped to handle such institutional complexity and have become key drivers of deep integration. This study takes NTRI as a longitudinal single-case study object. Based on ambidextrous innovation theory and resource action theory, it constructs an analytical framework of \u201cidentifying integration challenges\u2014addressing integration challenges\u2014achieving integrated innovation\u201d to explore how NTRI build dynamic ambidextrous capability through resource actions to drive the internal mechanism of integrating sci-tech innovation and industrial innovation. The results show that: (1) Accurately identifying integration breakpoints, bottlenecks, and hurdles at different development phases and establishing integration goals are key prerequisites for achieving integrated innovation; (2) the process of achieving integrated innovation is essentially a dynamic reconstruction of ambidextrous capability, involving resource bricolage to reconfigure demand-driven ambidextrous linking capability, utilizing resource orchestration to fission context-synchronized ambidextrous integration capability, and executing resource concerto to leapfrog networked symbiotic ambidextrous empowerment capability; and (3) the integrated innovation of NTRI at different phases exhibits a dynamic evolution, evolving from unidirectional spillover-integrated innovation to bidirectional interactive integrated innovation, and ultimately to empowering symbiotic integrated innovation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/systems14060694","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,17]],"date-time":"2026-06-17T10:19:53Z","timestamp":1781691593000},"page":"694","update-policy":"https:\/\/2.zoppoz.workers.dev:443\/https\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The Integration Mechanism Between Sci-Tech Innovation and Industrial Innovation in New-Type R&amp;D Institutions: A Case Study from the Perspective of Dynamic Ambidextrous Capability"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Yue","family":"He","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China"},{"name":"Guangdong Institute of Science and Technology Information, Guangzhou 510033, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xia","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1183","DOI":"10.2307\/3069433","article-title":"Something old, something new: A longitudinal study of search behavior and new product introduction","volume":"45","author":"Katila","year":"2002","journal-title":"Acad. 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