| Innovation is not only a key impetus to the promotion of total factor productivity, but also the origin of force for the transformation and upgrading of national economic development. The application of Innovation-oriented strategy and the raise of innovation ability are necessarily among the channels we need to take to adjust the economic structure, transform the development mode, and release the restriction pressure from outside and domestic. As IPR is the base and measurement index of innovation, patent is the most important element of IPR. With the quick developing pace in innovation and the application of IPR strategy, China’s IPR work took a great progress that from1985to2010the patent application and authorization experienced a substantial upsurge.However, what kind of the role our patent systems act during the process of economic rise? How the patent system influences the way of economic development? Which kind of inventors contribute best to the development? And what are the main factors influence the patent application? How to answer these questions and solve these problems existing in patent work practice, will determine the goal of future’s patent work, and it will also guide the deployment of limited resources and policy-makings.Aiming at the above-listed problems, with study on the present articles on the relationship between patent and economy development, the author finds out that there is no agreed conclusion in this field either in theoretical or empirical researches.On that account, based on the classic economic theory, and from the view of patent, this article mainly studies the relationship between patent and economic development and strive to reveal the inherent mechanism between them, with comprehensive adoption of some methods such as documents study, statistical analysis, empirical test and case analysis etc. Meanwhile, this article puts forward some suggestions to promote our patent works in order to offer impetus innovation and afford theoretical basis and decision support to the implementation of innovation strategy and transformation of economic development pattern. This paper mainly probes into the following questions:Firstly, it states the background and significance of research, with target and main idea of the study, as well as explanation of research contents, structure and methods, especially points out the innovative ideas this article bring forth.Secondly, it reviews some domestic and abroad research literatures on the relationship between patent and economic development, finds out that there are abundant excellent research results in this field. Therefore, this article teases the vein of theoretical procedure of these results and summarizes the conclusions which will facilitate the future research of the author.Thirdly, based on the analysis of provincial panel from1991to2010, the study tested empirically the relationship between patent and economic growth during this period. It respectively studied the effects of utility model patent, design patent and invention patent on economic growth. It also studied the effects of service invention and non-service invention on economic development, and put forward the countermeasures and suggestion, laying a basis for the following analysis. Meanwhile, the study made a case analysis of the concrete operations of patent pledge loan, pointing out a series of problems like the product risk control and operating procedure, etc.Fourthly, utilizing the2002-2007provincial data, the study explored the factors that affect the quality and quantity of patents, especially the realization factors of original inventions, so as to provide theories for the policy and suggestions of the paper.Fifthly, the study tries to analyze the china’s patent protection problems from the perspective of administrative and judicial protection as well as safeguarding rights aid, so as to provide theory and policy support for the enactment and implementation of national IPR strategy.The paper reaches the conclusion as follows:Firstly, with the empirical analysis through provincial panel data, the study reveals that the improvement of patent quantity prominently accelerated the economic growth in China in the period of1991to2010. As a carrier of technology improvement, patent contributed greatly to the growth of China’s economy. The study result proves the absurdity of the view point of "patent useless ", and it makes clear that the current patent systems in China are accord with the law of economic development and it accordingly integrates the patent and economic society. Thus, we need to stick on the right path in constantly improving our patent systems and take good use of this system to promote further more economic growth.Secondly, during1991and2010, the act effects on economic growth from different patent forms are differs periodically. From1991to1998, the main drives to economy growth from IPR community are utility model patent and design patent, not patent for invention yet. While from1999to2010, the role of patent for invention was getting more and more important for economy growth as the other two of utility model&design patents’ roles getting weaker. The study results provide support for the adjustment in patent stimulation policy. At present, almost all provincial governments have their own stimulation policies such as fund and subside to patent applicants. More than that, they also take patent as a key factor in a great range of filed such as bonus points for college entrance test, professional title appraisal, permanently residence registration and even for enterprise qualification authentication or patent pledge loan. However, according to the study result, the patent for invention plays more important role in economic development than other types of patents. Thus, the financial aid policy towards patent should be inclined to the patent for invention accordingly.Thirdly, from1987to2010, the contribution to economic development from service invention patent and non-service invention patent were almost the same. Both of them provided equally support to the procedure of economic growth, this could be also proved by the result of periodically studies.Fourthly, from1987to2010, within the four sub-types of service invention patents, the roles from different sub-types differ periodically to the economic growth. From1987to1998, the best player is industrial and mining enterprises’patents. And successively are invention patents from colleges, research institutes and government agencies&organizations. From1999to2010, the patent influences from industrial and mining enterprises and colleges are equal and the influential factors are same. And successively are invention patents from research institutes and government agencies&organizations. The study shows that from1987to2010the industrial and mining enterprises were the dominant force of innovation, along with them, the colleges gradually combined "research" and "industry" together and gave great support to the rapid growth of economy. Yet, the contribution from research institute was left behind, its’ support to economic growth was just a little bit higher than that from government agencies&organizations. Therefore, the support in policy and fund to stimulate the invention patents from research institutes should be increased by certain measures such as:1. Transform the researchers’notion from research achievements-oriented or thesis-oriented to patent-oriented, pay enough attention to the importance of patent;2. enforce effective actions to promote the combination of "research" and "industry", increase the levels of patents creation as well as industrialization.Fifthly, from the analysis results2002-2007, the main factor to support the patents increase is the betterment of IPR protection. From the long-term basis, the major impetus to China’s technological updates is the legal protection of IPR, not the fund support from government, as people traditionally thinking. The study reveals that from2002to2007the patents protection systems could be match with the development of economic society. Our special protection mode of administrative, judicial and legal rights safeguarding is suitable to the situation of China and it plays active role in promote the increase of patent so as to the development of economy. Therefore, we should insist on the present patent system, constantly perfect the legal system and reinforce the patent protection system. Suitable patent legal system and circumstance are extremely important the betterment of patent creation, application, management and protection, so as to the successive progress of economic society development.Comparing with other literature and documents on this topic, this paper reaches four aspects in innovation:Firstly, it analyzes the empirical data at provincial level from1991to2010, and respectively studies the affection to economic development from three types of patents, i.e. utility model patent, design patent and invention patent. Comparing with other papers, it has the advantage of longer time series, more advanced method and more meticulous detail analysis.Secondly, it analyzes the roles of service invention and non-service invention to economic growth, and the different affection from four sub-types of service inventions such as patents from colleges, research institutes, industrial and mining enterprises and government agencies&organizations. During this procedure, it developments a totally new angle-view to study the relationship between patent and economic growth, making up the deficiencies of original researches and becoming more effective in guidance for the real work.Thirdly, comparing with other present research literature, the paper has more distinct research mechanism by using provincial level panel data to proceed empirical test on patent affection factors, which definitely enriching and upgrading the research contents in aspect of patent affection factors.Fourthly, the paper analyzes the present situation and problems of China’s patent protection in administrative, judicial and legal rights safeguarding, accordingly it also provides some valuable policy suggestion to our patent protection system. |
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