Technical progress and induced innovation in China: a variable profit function approach

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The Enabling Effect of Intellectual Property Strategy on Total Factor Productivity of Enterprises: Evidence from China’s Intellectual Property Model Cities

“…It brings about a significant increase in production efficiency in a green and low-energy manner [42], generates huge economic benefits, and promotes TFP. Second, enterprise technological innovation is the efficiency driver of TFP [43]. As an important way to affect TFP, enterprise technological innovation effectively promotes the circulation of technical factors in the production sector and the efficiency of resource allocation and factor utilization [44].…”