of patents among Chinese firms in all industries and across multiple characteristics. However, our results indicate that … firms pursuing the most expensive R&D projects exhibit a relative preference for secrecy over patents, consistent with … suggest that firms utilize patents to secure initial financing and negotiate third party production contracts, while relying …

of international patenting. While this is changing rapidly, the share of Chinese patents which get filed abroad is still … a fraction of total patents filed at home and most patents still also only target one foreign IP office. Chinese foreign … of total Chinese patents filed abroad. The paper however also highlights that some of these trends are changing rapidly …