In view of the geographical obstacles for enterprises to obtain exploratory innovation technology from universities, the impact of geographical proximity on exploratory innovation in industry university cooperation is discussed, and based on boschma''s multi-dimensional proximity perspective, the relationship between organizational proximity, institutional proximity, social proximity and cognitive proximity is further analyzed. Taking the ICT industry as the research object, based on the patent transfer data of universities from 2014 to 2018, the industry university cooperative innovation network database is constructed, and the negative binomial regression is used for empirical analysis. The results show that geographical distance is indeed an obstacle factor for enterprises and universities to obtain exploratory innovation, but organizational proximity, institutional proximity, social proximity and cognitive proximity have a significant positive regulatory effect on them, that is, enterprises and cooperative universities belong to the same central ministry and local government, and have previous cooperation experience and cognitive advantages, It can overcome the limitation of geographical distance and realize cooperative exploratory innovation.