We investigate how international patent activity enables firms from emerging economies to thrive in the global … marketplace. We match Chinese customs data to US patent records, and leverage the quasi-random assignment of USPTO patent … examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on the subsequent export performance of Chinese firms. Successful …

Using comprehensive microdata based on the Chinese Patent Survey, we examine the appropriation strategies that firms …

China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least … partially meant to stimulate patents and "indigenous innovation." However, the analysis in this paper discusses how some of … innovation …

granted, and patent renewal decisions. Our results provide support for the “strategic patenting” hypothesis on the lower value …This paper presents a novel analysis of the international dimension of the rapid growth of Chinese patenting and … advances an econometric model to scrutinize the determinants of patent granting, prior-art searches, opposition to patents …

This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property … on why developing countries should encourage FDI and strengthen the IPR regime together to enhance domestic innovation …

China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity … patent holders. Furthermore, the paper examines what drives patenting activity. Higher R&D spending by the firm and higher …, however, did not lead to strong productivity growth. The delinking of patenting activity from productivity growth could be …

years this strategy has created negative impacts on patent quality and thus somewhat may have hampered innovation in China … patent filings and unprecedented negative growth rates of domestic utility model and design filings, shed new light on this … debate. They suggest that recent shifts away from the government strategy of stimulating mere numbers of any type of patent …

China's patent system is not significantly different from those in most countries, though it is more oriented towards … promoting technology diffusion rather than protecting inventors' rights. Since China patent law came into force in 1985, foreign …