Entrepreneurial entry strategy,as the initial strategic choice of new ventures,is very important for new ventures' subsequent behaviors and development.There are few studies explore how the digital transformation process of large parent companies influence spin-offs to choice entrepreneurial entry strategy.This research focuses on the context of enterprise digital transformation,discussing the mechanism of parent companies' digital transformation and spin-offs' choice of imitation-based entrepreneurial entry strategy.This research uses the sample of 5147 spin-offs in the database of ITJUZI.com and tests the mechanism with ordered probit model.This research finds out: First,parent companies' digital transformation promote spin-offs to choice entrepreneurial entry strategy based on imitation.Second,the proportion of local enterprises in patent companies has a negative moderation effect on the mechanism between parent companies' digital transformation and spinoffs' choice of imitation-based entrepreneurial entry strategy.Finally,the scale of parent companies' corporate venture capital ecosystem has a positive moderation effect on the mechanism between parent companies' digital transformation and spin-offs' choice of imitation-based entrepreneurial entry strategy.