How R&amp;D Financial Subsidies, Regional R&amp;D Input, and Intellectual Property Protection Affect the Sustainable Patent Output of SMEs: Evidence from China

Xu, Pengyuan; Zhang, Meiqing; Gui, Min

doi:10.3390/su12031207

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“…Similarly, Cin et al also confirmed the positive correlation between government R&D subsidies and innovation performance based on an empirical analysis of Korean SMEs [20]. Xu et al, based on a panel data analysis in China, analyzed the impact of government direct subsidies and indirect tax reduction and innovation support on innovation performance by studying small-and medium-sized enterprises in 30 regions and analyzed the mediating and regulating role of intellectual property protection in its influence process [21]. Zhang and Huang studied 274 cities in China and concluded that government innovation support has a steady role in promoting regional innovation capability, but its impact is significantly different under different levels of heterogeneity [8].…”

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Government R&D Investment, Knowledge Accumulation, and Regional Innovation Capability: Evidence of a Threshold Effect Model from China

Gong

2021

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Innovation is the primary driving force of development and the strategic support for building a modern economic system. For enterprises, continuous innovation capabilities can effectively deal with uncertainties in the business environment and can enhance business competitiveness. Macropolicies can stimulate economic development and can try to promote enterprise innovation, but there is still widespread debate in academia about whether these policies successfully promote or, in fact, inhibit innovation. Looking at the provincial panel data from China between 2009 and 2018, the authors of this paper explored the complex nonlinear mechanism of government R&D investment in driving regional innovation capabilities from the perspective of knowledge accumulation. The empirical results show that, when the level of knowledge accumulation is used as the threshold variable, there is an obvious threshold effect between government R&D input and regional innovation capabilities. As the level of knowledge accumulation crosses the threshold, the influence of government R&D investment on regional innovation capabilities undergoes a structural mutation, shifting from an insignificant inhibitory effect to a significant promotional effect. The above conclusion has strong robustness. This article provides useful policy enlightenment for China to promote the development of scientific and technological civilization and the construction of an innovative country.

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Government R&D Investment, Knowledge Accumulation, and Regional Innovation Capability: Evidence of a Threshold Effect Model from China

Gong

2021

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“…Third, financial expenditure can optimize the business environment. In the process of building and managing a NIPDCs, the government needs to provide financial support on the enforcement of intellectual property rights, judicial, professional training, tax incentives, the establishment of special funds, and the establishment of an intellectual property platform (Fang et al, 2017; Xu et al, 2020; Zhan, 2012). The financial support provided by the government in these economic activities will provide a good investment and business environment for transnational enterprises, which is conducive to attracting foreign capital inflows (Wang et al, 2020).…”

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Intellectual property rights policy and foreign direct investment: A quasi‐natural experiment from China

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Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China has attracted a large number of foreign investment. However, because of China's weak intellectual property protection environment, it is difficult to protect the intellectual assets of transnational enterprises, which will affect their investment decisions to some extent. In order to optimize the intellectual property system and improve the intellectual property environment, national intellectual property demonstration city policy was proposed in 2012 to improve the institutional environment. To explore the impact of national intellectual property demonstration city policy on foreign capital inflow, we explore the relationship between national intellectual property demonstration city and foreign direct investment (FDI) using the multi‐period differences‐in‐differences (DID) method based on city panel data of China from 2003 to 2019. Results shows the following: (1) Compared with non‐demonstration cities, national intellectual property demonstration cities are profit to FDI promotion. If a city is rated as a national intellectual property demonstration city, local FDI will increase by 5% on average. After a series of robustness tests, the conclusion is still tenable. (2) We find that the national intellectual property demonstration city policy has obvious urban heterogeneity. The effect of national intellectual property demonstration city policy on the increase in FDI is more significant in central cities, western cities, and key cities. (3) The mechanism test shows that national intellectual property demonstration city policies have a positive effect on FDI through increasing the government's strategic expenditure on intellectual property, improving urban technology innovation capacity, optimizing human capital structure, and promoting the marketization of cities. Therefore, China should continue to implement the policy of national intellectual property demonstration city, especially increasing the number of national intellectual property demonstration city in key cities, central cities, and western cities. On the one hand, these findings can help government evaluate the attractiveness of demonstration cities for FDI. On the other hand, it also provides relevant policy enlightenment for the Chinese government to select appropriate demonstration cities and further refine and implement the national intellectual property demonstration city policies.

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“…In the legal perspective, a fair and established legal environment is vital for the sound and sustainable development of enterprises. In particular, the emphasis on the protection of intellectual property rights can significantly contribute to the increase in the number of corporate patent applications [42]. Andreea Barbu [43] used multiple regression models to study the effect of intellectual property rights on enterprise innovation, and the results showed that the protection for patent and trademark rights have a significant positive effect on the enterprise innovation output.…”

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Influence of Enterprise’s Factor Inputs and Co-Opetition Relationships to Its Innovation Output

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In the context of economic globalization, innovation has become a major drive for the sustainable development of enterprises, which emphasizes the importance of studying the influencing factors of enterprise innovation output. The purpose of this study is to clarify the influence mechanism of different indicators on enterprise innovation output, and then provide relevant suggestions for improving enterprise innovation ability. This paper takes 562 enterprises in Chaoyang Sub-park and Fengtai Sub-park of Zhongguancun in Beijing within the time span between 2015 and 2016 as the research objects, and constructs a comprehensive indicator system of influencing factors for enterprise innovation output from the perspective of enterprise co-opetition relationship, factor input and environmental factors. A quantitative model of innovation output and influencing factors was built and then solved, via spike-and-slab sparse function and stepwise regression, aiming at analyzing the influence of different indicators on enterprise innovation output. In addition, this paper also classifies enterprises according to their innovation level and explores the influence of indicators on different types of enterprises. The innovation of this study lies in the modeling of competition and cooperation between enterprises and the establishment of a relatively comprehensive indicator system of influencing factors for enterprise innovation output. The results show that the degree of technological collaboration between enterprises, the level of financing and the degree of capital and labor input in innovation activities have significant positive effects on enterprise innovation output. On the contrary, product and service competition, as well as capital competition, tends to have a negative impact, which urges enterprises to pay heed to the intensity of competition faced by products and services as well as the diversity of financing sources and investment targets to reduce the negative impacts. In addition, enterprises with different levels of innovation should take customized measures in terms of factor input and co-opetition relationships, in that some indicators such as network structure indicators negatively influence the innovation output of enterprises with lower levels of innovation, but has positive impacts on those with higher levels of innovation.

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How R&D Financial Subsidies, Regional R&D Input, and Intellectual Property Protection Affect the Sustainable Patent Output of SMEs: Evidence from China

Cited by 8 publications

References 50 publications

Government R&D Investment, Knowledge Accumulation, and Regional Innovation Capability: Evidence of a Threshold Effect Model from China

Government R&D Investment, Knowledge Accumulation, and Regional Innovation Capability: Evidence of a Threshold Effect Model from China

Intellectual property rights policy and foreign direct investment: A quasi‐natural experiment from China

Influence of Enterprise’s Factor Inputs and Co-Opetition Relationships to Its Innovation Output

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