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Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China

Year: 2016

Type: report

Abstract: Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects innovation in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs).Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase is larger in cities with strong IPR protection.Our results support theoretical arguments that IPR protection strengthens firms' incentives to innovate and that private sector firms are more sensitive to IPR protection than SOEs.

Source: National Bureau of Economic Research

DOI: 10.3386/w22685

Authors: Lily Fang, Josh Lerner, Chaopeng Wu

Institutions: INSEAD, National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard University, Cornell University

Language: English

Topic: Intellectual Property and Patents

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Industry, innovation and infrastructure, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

Funder: Harvard Business School

OpenAlex ID: W4302594029

Cites: 28

Cited by: 27

Related to: 10