A great wall of patents: What is behind China's recent patent explosion?

By Albert G Z Hu, G. Jefferson. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Import and innovation: Evidence from Chinese firms ☆ (2017, background): “In China, innovative firms are reluctant to apply for patents because the protection of intellectual property rights has been weak ( Hu and Jefferson, 2009 ).”
Do R&D tax incentives work? Firm-level evidence from China (2017, background): “A large body of literature has found that SOEs tend to be less innovative (see Choi, Lee, &Williams, 2011; Hu & Jefferson, 2009; Lin et al., 2010; Qian & Xu, 1998; Shleifer, 1998).”
Behind the recent surge of Chinese patenting: An institutional view (2012, background): “Chinese patenting began to surge in the year 2000, one year before China’s accession to WTO (Hu and Jefferson, 2009).”
Patent statistics: A good indicator for innovation in China? Patent subsidy program impacts on patent quality (2015, background): “Although GrantSub is not significant in estimations with applications from SOEs and POEs, the coefficient is negative.”
Public Governance, Corporate Governance, and Firm Innovation: An Examination of State-Owned Enterprises (2019, unknown): “Patents resulting from indigenous innovation in China have increased because of economic development (Hu & Jefferson, 2009; Huang, 2010).”
Environmental Regulation and the Cross-Border Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from Automobile Patents (2015, unknown): “Several studies have shown that stricter patent laws have led to higher patent activity, e.g. Hall and Ziedonis (2001), Hu and Jefferson (2009), Lerner (2009) and Perkins and Neumayer (2011).”