Government targets, end-of-year patenting rush and innovative performance in China

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
• ² Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. zlei@psu.edu.
• ³ EMS Energy Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. zlei@psu.edu.
• ⁴ Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
• ⁵ Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
• ⁶ Office of Policy and International Affairs, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, USA.