partially meant to stimulate patents and "indigenous innovation." However, the analysis in this paper discusses how some of …China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least … these policies in effect can actually discourage quality patents, and highest-quality patents in particular, and related …

This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property …'s accession to the World Trade Organization) (WTO) in 2001. We also show that there is a positive upstream spillover effect of FDI …