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Serving Innovation: Exploring Patent Agency Service Networks in China

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  • Junsong Wang
  • Jie Qi
  • Fenghua Pan
  • Zhiqing Liu

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Patent agency services are crucial for the codification of technical knowledge and inventions. Drawing on an inter‐firm network analysis of the patent agency service relationships between patent agencies and their innovation clients during the last two decades in China, this paper seeks to explore the structure of urban patent agency service networks and how it is shaped by China's unique institutional and market forces. The study found that although the patent agency service network generally follows the basic structure of China's innovative and economic landscapes, it is still deeply shaped by China's unique intellectual property institutions, administrative hierarchy factors, market forces driven by patent agency service demand, and multidimensional proximities in a complex manner. Analyzing how these factors function should be related to the characteristics of patent agencies and the actors of networks. The study will help us understand how city patent service networks might be shaped by institutional and spatial factors, and provide new evidence on how cities are interlinked within patent agency service networks.

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  • Junsong Wang & Jie Qi & Fenghua Pan & Zhiqing Liu, 2024. "Serving Innovation: Exploring Patent Agency Service Networks in China," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 55(4), December.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:growch:v:55:y:2024:i:4:n:e70000
    DOI: 10.1111/grow.70000
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