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<p>Intellectual property (IP) protection depends not only on legislative frameworks but also on the provision of high-quality IP education. Leveraging a quasi-natural experiment involving the introduction of IP undergraduate programs in Chinese universities and patent data from Chinese listed companies (1993–2018), this study employs a difference-in-differences model to empirically examine the causal effect of IP education on collaborative innovation. The main result shows that IP education significantly boosts collaborative patents by about 18%, equivalent to about 9% of the sample mean. Furthermore, mechanism analysis reveals that IP education operates through three key channels: (1) enhancing the supply of IP-related services, (2) mitigating information asymmetry, and (3) reducing IP-related litigation. Heterogeneity analysis indicates that the effect of IP education varies across city tiers and types of collaborative innovation participants. Furthermore, IP education raises firms’ total patents by 7.91% and R&amp;D investment by 8.67%. Long-term accumulative effects of IP education are also observed. These findings underscore the necessity for China to prioritize IP education, cultivate specialized IP talent, establish systematic university-industry collaboration mechanisms, and promote institutional platforms for IP commercialization through skilled professionals.</p>

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Intellectual property education and corporate collaborative innovation: evidence from China

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  • 发表日期：

    2025年8月15日

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  • Huake Liu,
  • Frank Min Song,
  • Yulin Yang,
  • Yuyan Li

摘要

Intellectual property (IP) protection depends not only on legislative frameworks but also on the provision of high-quality IP education. Leveraging a quasi-natural experiment involving the introduction of IP undergraduate programs in Chinese universities and patent data from Chinese listed companies (1993–2018), this study employs a difference-in-differences model to empirically examine the causal effect of IP education on collaborative innovation. The main result shows that IP education significantly boosts collaborative patents by about 18%, equivalent to about 9% of the sample mean. Furthermore, mechanism analysis reveals that IP education operates through three key channels: (1) enhancing the supply of IP-related services, (2) mitigating information asymmetry, and (3) reducing IP-related litigation. Heterogeneity analysis indicates that the effect of IP education varies across city tiers and types of collaborative innovation participants. Furthermore, IP education raises firms’ total patents by 7.91% and R&D investment by 8.67%. Long-term accumulative effects of IP education are also observed. These findings underscore the necessity for China to prioritize IP education, cultivate specialized IP talent, establish systematic university-industry collaboration mechanisms, and promote institutional platforms for IP commercialization through skilled professionals.