This book evaluates the risks that China’s intellectual property (IP) regime poses to innovation. China's IP regime has been heavily criticized as potentially stifling innovation. However, at the same time, significant reforms have been made to the regime to make it more conducive to innovation. How risky, really, is China's IP regime for innovation? This book investigates this question at different units of analysis based on a multidisciplinary assessment involving law, management, economics, and political science. Specifically, it critically appraises China's substantive IP laws, policies for boosting patent quantity and quality, policies and other measures for transmitting and exploiting technological knowledge, new experimental IP policies and measures, and China's systems for administering and enforcing patents. The book avoids excessive legalese, making it easily accessible for practitioners and scholars from different backgrounds, yet also covers the multiplicity of need-to-know risks posed by China’s IP regime. Further, the book provides practical tools, including risk assessment matrices for businesses, and recommendations for institutional reform. weiterlesen