Intellectual Property Rights Protection And The Sophistication Of Export Technology In China

The technical content of the export product determines the economic growth of a country.But in recent years,China's exports in the manufacturing sector face many difficulties:more and more trade protection,unfair competition in the domestic low-tech products and so on.Obviously,expanding the scale of trade is not a solution to economic growth.In the context of the current economic transformation,to improve the technological content of export products and promote the transformation and upgrading of export trade structure determine the future of China's manufacturing industry.In this paper,we first select the top 50 countries with the world's average trade volume in the decade from 2006 to 2014,and then obtain the export technical complexity of the 26 kinds of industries in China according to the SITC.At the same time,this paper makes the measurement of IPR protection at the national level and industry level.Then,based on the theoretical analysis,this paper analyzes the subject of this article by using the panel data of the industry level.This paper finds that China's technology complexity has declined in the past decade.At the same time,for developing countries,the improvement of intellectual property protection will reduce the technical complexity of export enterprises by reducing the ability to imitate enterprises and increasing the cost of innovation.The study also shows that the positive effect of R&D on the improvement of intellectual property protection and export technology complexity is only significant for tech-intensive industries,while the positive regulatory role of FDI is significant for different types of industries.In the industry,this effect is different.The impact of R&D on the complexity of export technology is negative for labor-intensive industries and positive for capital-intensive and tech-intensive industries;the impact of trade degree on export technology complexity is negative for tech-intensive industries,and is positive for labor-intensive and capital-intensive industries.Human capital and FDI also affect the upgrading of export technology to a certain extent.