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The results reveal that all three capability dimensions significantly enhance innovation performance, with innovative capacity exerting the strongest effect. Both exploratory and exploitative learning positively moderate the capability\u2013performance relationships, though their effects vary across capability dimensions: exploitative learning more strongly reinforces the effect of absorptive capacity, while exploratory learning more effectively amplifies the influence of innovative capacity. 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