Smart Manufacturing Promotes High-Quality Development of Enterprises in China

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The manuscript offers valuable insights into the potential of smart manufacturing to drive high-quality development in Chinese enterprises.

The abstract needs to provide more detail on the empirical results. “This finding is robust to a set of tests” is mentioned, and the specific tests conducted to support this claim need to be summarized.

The abstract only mentions the use of a dataset from 2015 to 2022, and the methodology (details about the analytical techniques used) is not explained.

The introduction needs to clarify the gap in the existing literature that this study aims to fill.

Recommendations could be prioritized based on potential impact or feasibility, or categorized into short-term and long-term.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

1. How to determine the assigned gravity in Table 1?

2. Why do you use the variables in Table 3 and what is the basis for your judgment?

3. What is the reason for choosing OLS regression? What are the advantages?

4. Why are there no HOD values for other variables in Table 5

5. Why does the coefficient appear positive when parameters such as year are added? How do these parameters affect the change of the coefficient?

6. What is the innovation of this paper and what is the difference between it and other literatures in the same research direction?

7. Whether the number of patent applications is directly linked to technological innovation, and why the final number of patent applications submitted in a certain year is taken as a basis.

8. How to determine which enterprises are qualified to introduce smart building? What standards should these companies meet?

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