What can explain the Chinese patent explosion?

We analyse the ‘explosion’ of patent filings by Chinese residents both domestically and in the United States during the early 2000s, employing a unique dataset of 374,000 firms matching patent applications to manufacturing census data. Our analysis reveals that patenting is highly concentrated among...

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Main Authors: Eberhardt, Markus, Helmers, Christian, Yu, Zhihong
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34359/