人工智能专利网络对企业智能化发展的影响

Impact of AI patent networks on the intelligent development of enterprises

人工智能专利是推动制造企业转变传统生产方式、实现智能化发展的重要手段。探清人工智能专利网络对企业智能化发展的作用机制,有助于揭示提升智能化发展的外部有效路径。结合开放式创新理论和知识基础理论,本文基于“结构-资源-能力”框架,借助修正引力模型构建2010—2022年制造企业人工智能专利网络,采用双向固定效应模型探究人工智能专利网络位置对企业智能化发展的影响。理论和实证结果显示:人工智能专利网络位置对企业智能化发展具有显著的促进作用,即拥有较高的中心度和结构洞有利于企业智能化发展。人工智能专利网络位置有利于提高企业知识宽度和知识深度,但主要通过知识深度间接促进企业智能化发展。企业智能化发展具有网络同群效应,且其正向调节人工智能专利网络位置与企业智能化发展之间的正向关系。在技术密集型行业和发达城市中,人工智能专利网络位置促进企业智能化发展的正向作用更显著。本文将人工智能专利作为构建网络的基础,从网络位置切入研究智能化发展的外部因素,明晰了人工智能专利网络位置提高企业智能化发展的重要路径,丰富了企业智能化发展的前因研究;将同群效应延伸至企业智能化发展的活动,揭示了企业选择智能化发展的决策动因,从而进一步丰富了人工智能专利网络位置对企业智能化发展影响的研究框架。研究结果拓展了智能化发展的前因研究,为制造企业积极谋划智能制造战略提供理论指导。

The AI patent is an important means to promote manufacturing enterprises to transform traditional production methods and achieve intelligent development.Exploring the mechanism by which AI patent networks affect the intelligent development of enterprises can help reveal external effective paths to enhance intelligent development.By combining the open innovation theory and knowledge base theory,and based on the"structure-resources-capability"framework,this paper used a modified gravity model to construct innovation networks with 2010-2022 AI patents of manufacturing enterprises and used the bidirectional fixed effects model to explore the impact of the position of AI patent networks on the intelligent development of enterprises.The theoretical and empirical research results indicated that the position of AI patent networks has a significant promoting effect on the intelligent development of enterprises,that is,having high centrality and structural holes is conducive to the intelligent development of enterprises.AI patent network position is beneficial for improving knowledge breadth and depth of enterprises,but it mainly indirectly promotes the intelligent development of enterprises through knowledge depth.The intelligent development of enterprises has a network peer effect,and it positively moderates the positive relationship between the position of AI patent networks and the intelligent development of enterprises.In technology-intensive industries and developed cities,the position of AI patent networks has a more significant positive effect on promoting the intelligent development of enterprises.This paper took the AI patents as the foundation for constructing networks,studied the external factors of intelligent development from the perspective of network position,and clarified the important path for improving the development of enterprise intelligence through the position of AI patent networks,which has enriched the research on the antecedents of enterprise intelligence development;it also extended the peer effect to the activities of enterprise intelligent development to reveal the decision-making motives for enterprises to choose intelligent development,thereby further enriching the research framework on the impact of the position of AI patent networks on the intelligent development of enterprises.The study has expanded the research on the antecedents of intelligent development and provided some theoretical guidance for manufacturing enterprises to actively plan intelligent manufacturing strategies.