Study Of The Relationship Between Intellectual Property Protection And Foreign Investment

Since the opening-up policy, China has attracted large amounts of foreign directinvestment to promote the rapid development of the national economy. The world'stop-500 enterprises are no longer strange to the Chinese people. On the contrary,many nation enterprises are gradually dropping out of the competition. Then, has theentry of the foreign direct investment promoted the development of Chinese industries?Or is it gobbling up the Chinese national economy?Judging from the development and the status quo of the utilization of foreigninvestment in many industries, the Chinese enterprises have not improved theirinnovation abilities by making use of foreign investment. They are still lingering atthe stage of learning and imitating, and have not developed their own intellectualproperty rights. The investment attracted by the high-tech zones in different regions ofChina are still focusing on areas of assembling and manufacturing labor-intensiveproducts with low added values. This has not been a good help to the perfecting of theindustrial lines and the upgrading of the industries.Since China has been providing preferential policies to promote foreigninvestment, then what restricted foreign direct investment from promoting China'sdevelopment in science and technology? After researching on facts and data fromvarious aspects, the author has found that in the process of attracting foreigninvestment, China has not paid enough attention to intellectual property rightinvestment and the quality of the existing intellectual property right investment is notvery high. The author has made a judgment: intellectual property right protection hasa close positive relation with the quality of the utilization of foreign investment.Based on the global background of intellectual property right investment andChina's urge for intellectual property right investment, and combining the ordinaryinvestment theories, the thesis researches on the importance of intellectual propertyright investment on China's development and the significance of strengtheningintellectual property right protection in increasing the quality of the utilization offoreign investment. Through comparison analysis and sample analysis, the thesis alsosummarizes important tips for China to further utilize foreign investment so as toawaken the sense of intellectual property right protection of the domestic enterprises,increase their own innovation abilities and create their core advantages for taking partin the international competition.