Since corporate scandals in the last decade, corporate governance system has been highly focused, besides, now under knowledge-based economy the innovation ability of enterprises is a key factor to enterprise's success. However, how the board of directors effects firms' innovation ability has been rarely explored. Generally, it is thought that corporate governance could provide functions to bring stakeholders the greatest profit and have better operating efficiency. Precious study proved that corporate governance is related to corporate performance. This study discusses the relationship between board of directors and the firm's innovation ability, including size of board directors, proportion of shareholding and traits of board of directors. By using patent counts as an index to measure a firm's innovation ability, this study examined 255 public listed electronic firms in Taiwan by using unbalanced 5 year panel data. This study adopts one way fixed effect model to evaluate parameters of model, and use F-test to examine the explanatory power of a model. Finally, this study shows how the corporate governance system affects firms' innovation ability, and provides suggestion that how corporate governance system, board directors and other traits are effective in firms innovation ability.

Abstract— The continued advancement of the “One Belt, One Road” strategy, coupling with the rapid development of the Internet, has provided a convenient online platform for cross-border e-commerce enterprises. China’s cross-border e-commerce enterprises have made unprecedented progress. However, at the same time, the problem of intellectual property infringement in cross-border e-commerce has become increasingly prominent, seriously restricting the development of China’s cross-border e-commerce enterprises. On the basis of analyzing the intellectual property strategy of enterprises. This paper describes the necessity of creating an intellectual property strategy for cross-border e-commerce enterprises, and proposes strategies for building relevant intellectual property strategies aimed at the weak awareness of intellectual property and the copycatting of enterprise products, which are common in the operation of cross-border e-commerce enterprises in China.