经济与管理研究2025，Vol.46Issue(7)：110-127,18.DOI:10.13502/j.cnki.issn1000-7636.2025.07.007
智能制造提高了企业创新效率吗?
Does Intelligent Manufacturing Improve Enterprise Innovation Efficiency?
摘要
Abstract
Manufacturing serves as the lifeline of national economic development.Promoting R&D innovation in manufacturing enterprises amid the wave of digital intelligence has become crucial for driving the high-quality development of China's manufacturing sector and ascending to the higher end of the global value chain.Intelligent manufacturing involves not only technological breakthroughs but also a comprehensive transformation of enterprises with technological upgrading as a pivotal driver.By integrating next-generation information technology with manufacturing technology,intelligent manufacturing promotes the production,reorganization,and management of knowledge,thereby enhancing the knowledge absorption capacity in the innovation process and improving the R&D productivity of enterprises.Existing research mainly focuses on whether intelligent manufacturing improves enterprise innovation efficiency,sparking debates about productivity.However,the core issue should be the effectiveness of intelligent manufacturing in improving enterprise innovation efficiency. Based on data from A-share listed manufacturing companies from 2010 to 2023,this paper explores the influence of intelligent manufacturing on enterprise innovation efficiency from the perspective of the enterprise life cycle.The empirical results show that intelligent manufacturing generally improves enterprise innovation efficiency.From a life cycle perspective,intelligent manufacturing has a positive impact on enterprises in the maturity stage but does not exert a significant impact on those in the growth or decline stages.This phenomenon can primarily be attributed to the varying innovation willingness,R&D capabilities,and organizational characteristics of enterprises in different life cycle stages.Heterogeneity regression analysis reveals that intelligent manufacturing has a significant impact on improving the innovation efficiency of non-state-owned enterprises,high-tech industries,and technology-intensive enterprises in the maturity stage.Regarding the mechanism,intelligent manufacturing can improve enterprise innovation efficiency by strengthening the knowledge absorption capacity. The main contributions are as follows.(1)This paper explores the relationship between intelligent manufacturing and enterprise innovation based on life cycle theory,supplementing the existing dualism of intelligent manufacturing and enterprise innovation.(2)The measurement of innovation efficiency based on the scaled R&D expenditure incorporates enterprises'initial investment in patent applications and citations,which can more accurately reflect the input-output relationship of enterprise innovation efficiency.(3)Different from the mechanisms of human capital upgrading,strategic transformation,information channels,capital channels,and cost channels in the existing research,this paper puts forward a knowledge absorption capacity mechanism through which intelligent manufacturing enhances enterprise innovation efficiency,thereby enriching current research.关键词
智能制造/创新效率/生命周期理论/制造业/知识吸收能力Key words
intelligent manufacturing/innovation efficiency/life cycle theory/manufacturing/knowledge absorption capacity分类
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李娇,刘建丽..智能制造提高了企业创新效率吗?[J].经济与管理研究,2025,46(7):110-127,18.基金项目
国家社会科学基金重大项目"智能制造关键核心技术国产替代战略与政策研究"(21&ZD132) （21&ZD132）
中国社会科学院登峰战略企业管理优势学科建设项目(DF2023YS25) （DF2023YS25）
