How Does Manufacturing Intelligentization Influence Innovation in China from a Nonlinear Perspective and Economic Servitization Background?

Genghua Tang () and Hongxun Mai ()
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Genghua Tang: School of Economics and Commerce, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510520, China
Hongxun Mai: School of Economics and Commerce, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510520, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 21, 1-16

Abstract: Under the trend of high-quality economic development and economic servitization in China, it is of great significance to study the impact of manufacturing intelligentization on innovation and its mechanisms. This study uses a sample of 30 of China’s provinces from 2008 to 2020 to empirically test the effect of manufacturing intelligentization on innovation performance from a nonlinear perspective and examine the intermediary mechanism of diversified agglomeration of producer services against an economic servitization background. The study finds that intelligentization has a significant inverted U-shaped impact on innovation performance. It shows that the positive marginal intelligentization effect on innovation gradually decreases, and intelligence inhibits innovation when it exceeds the threshold. In addition, diversified agglomeration of producer services can improve innovation performance, and intelligentization has an inverted U-shaped effect on this diversified aggregation. Thus, the nonlinear influence of intelligence on innovation performance has a channel of diversified agglomeration of producer services. Furthermore, human capital has a reverse moderating effect on the inverted U-shaped relationship between intelligentization and innovation performance. This conclusion can help to promote the innovation-driven and sustainable development of China’s economy under the intelligent manufacturing strategy.

Keywords: manufacturing intelligentization; innovation performance; producer services agglomeration; nonlinear impact; human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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