Empirical Study Of China's IPR System And Its Impact On R&D

The purpose of this thesis is to show policy proposals aimed at science and technology promotion in developing countries. Intellectual property rights are critical for technological development and many developing countries have improved IPR protection after the TRIPS agreement invoked in 1995. Many policy makers and scholars believe that Intellectual Property Protection is critical not only for inducing innovation but also for importing technologies from overseas. However, it is dubious that whether there is a direct causality between the flow of technology and the development of technology in developing countries.In this study, I collected Chinese firm's patent data and addressed this problem. The results showed that patent protection enhancement in developing countries prevented Chinese firms from applying new technologies to their invention. Since applying new technology enables firms to learn the technology, this result indicates that the IPR reform would become a barrier of learning new technology and, at the result it would prevent firms from future technology development. Analysis suggests that governments in developing countries should have a policy that would complete IPR reform.