Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects innovation … in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE …

. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation … unpredictable, and was unrelated to such proxies for the productivity of the innovation as inventive capital or the commercial …