| Against the backdrop of China entering the "new normal" and innovation becoming a key driver of economic growth,the severe situation of the national implementation of the IPR strategy poses a challenge to the current IPR trial system.Since 2006,China has been exploring the reform of the intellectual property rights trial"Three Traditional Procedures Consolidate to One".This reform is dedicated to solving the problem of disconnected trial procedures caused by conflicting jurisdictions in civil,criminal,and administrative intellectual property cases,so as to professionalize intellectual property trials and form a synergy for judicial protection of intellectual property rights,thereby helping to promote innovation-driven development.On the other hand,in the process of exploring the construction of a "dual circulation"development pattern,China,as a world market,needs to increase its high-level opening to the world and continue to share China’s technology market opportunities with the world.The import of technology has shifted from the traditional endogenous innovation approach of Chinese industry to a "T-import plus" model.It is important to consider how to improve the quality of technology introduction,expand the scope of technology introduction,and realize the "mutual ride" between technology introduction and technological innovation under the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics because we must clarify the deeper development potential and future driving growth points of China’s industrial innovation growth and foreign trade.This paper attempts to investigate the impact of the improved level of judicial protection of IPRs on enterprises’ access to foreign technology licenses in the Chinese context,both theoretically and empirically,and seeks to uncover the mechanism of its effect.This paper compares the facts on the characteristics of a major institutional change in IPR judicial protection-the "Three Traditional Procedures Consolidate to One"reform-and the introduction of foreign technology by Chinese enterprises and uses combined data from the 2002-2014 Chinese Industrial Enterprises Database and the Patent Filing Database of the China Intellectual Property Office.Using the combined data from the 2002-2014 Chinese Industrial Enterprises Database and the Patent Filing Database of the China Intellectual Property Office,combined with manually collated data from the Supreme Court,various local government regulations and announcements,and other official documents of the IPR triple trial reform pilot,we construct a multitemporal DID model to empirically prove that the IPR triple trial reform has a significant facilitating effect on enterprises’ acquisition of foreign technology licenses,and this result also passes the parallel trend test and the placebo test.To further ensure the reliability of our findings,we conducted robustness tests by changing the estimation model,replacing clustering variables and adding control omitted variables.In addition,our heterogeneity tests show that there is firm type heterogeneity in the impact of the triple audit on firms’ access to foreign technology licenses,with the triple audit having a more pronounced effect on foreign and private firms’ access to foreign technology licenses than state-owned firms;and there is industry heterogeneity,with a more pronounced effect on non-high-tech firms.The paper also examines the indirect channels through which the "Three Traditional Procedures Consolidate to One" affects the availability of foreign technology to enterprises and confirms that judicial protection of IPRs can increase the probability of enterprises obtaining foreign technology licenses through enhancing trade openness,marketization and increasing the degree of technological competition in the industry.This study provides a new perspective and idea for a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between the reform of China’s IPR judicial protection system and the introduction of technology by enterprises. |
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