Patent Laws and Innovation in China.
This paper explores how the patent laws and intellectual property rights (IPR) system in China have affected innovation during the reform period. Subject to criticism due to imperfect enforcement, the patent law system has produced a stock of patents which has grown rapidly alongside economic growth...
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Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2006
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| description | This paper explores how the patent laws and intellectual property rights (IPR) system in China have affected innovation during the reform period. Subject to criticism due to imperfect enforcement, the patent law system has produced a stock of patents which has grown rapidly alongside economic growth. Despite significant regional disparities in income and the level of innovation, the success rates of patent applications are similar across the country. The application of the patent laws alone seems insufficient to explain these differences. We thus present a simple model of patent production in China derived from the patent law system. We find the main determinants of patents to be R&D; expenditure and foreign direct investment (FDI), but not the number of researchers, though the level of human capital matters. We conclude that the policies governing FDI and R&D; are the main determinants of patents, as the IPR system is fairly uniform across provinces. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:205260a9-2d22-47a3-abf6-7df71b7dd2822022-03-26T11:27:00ZPatent Laws and Innovation in China.Working paperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042uuid:205260a9-2d22-47a3-abf6-7df71b7dd282EnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetDepartment of Economics (University of Oxford)2006Yueh, LThis paper explores how the patent laws and intellectual property rights (IPR) system in China have affected innovation during the reform period. Subject to criticism due to imperfect enforcement, the patent law system has produced a stock of patents which has grown rapidly alongside economic growth. Despite significant regional disparities in income and the level of innovation, the success rates of patent applications are similar across the country. The application of the patent laws alone seems insufficient to explain these differences. We thus present a simple model of patent production in China derived from the patent law system. We find the main determinants of patents to be R&D; expenditure and foreign direct investment (FDI), but not the number of researchers, though the level of human capital matters. We conclude that the policies governing FDI and R&D; are the main determinants of patents, as the IPR system is fairly uniform across provinces. |
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