Influential Factors upon Universities’ Patent Application in China Jiangsu Province: Based on Structural Equation Model

Abstract

Nowadays, independent intellectual property rights have become a powerful weapon for the national competition. Mass innovation is also one of the engines of economic development. China is accelerating the construction of an innovative country. As patents are an important part of independent intellectual property rights, research on patents is helpful to China's innovation construction. Ten factors affecting the higher institutions’ patent application are summarized and extracted by carding literature. On this basis, three main factors including higher institutions’ internal environment, social environment and cooperative environment which influence the ten factors are abstracted by utilizing the exploratory factor analysis. Then, this paper takes China Jiangsu province higher institutions as an example to construct the influential factors’ routes model of higher institutions’ patent application. Structural equation model is used to verify and modify the model based on the questionnaire data. The results show that the three types of environment have a positive effect on higher institutions’ patent application, in which the higher institutions’ internal environment has the most effect on the patent application. The higher institutions’ internal environment and the social environment also have an effect on the cooperative environment, which also affects the patent application. Therefore, higher institutions and society are required to improve their internal environment and construct the favorable social environment of patent application respectively as well as the higher institutions and governments are required to create the cooperative environment that is beneficial for patent application so that they can promote the higher institutions’ patent application.

Keywords: patent application; influential factors; influential route; structural equation model

DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/12-9-01

Publication date:March 31^st 2020