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<p>Innovation drives technological progress and industrial development, which in turn fuels economic growth, while fair competition improves resource allocation and sustains market vitality. Intellectual property protection (IPP) acts as a vital instrument for catalyzing creativity and preserving a vibrant commercial ecosystem. However, there is still limited empirical evidence at the micro level regarding how IPP helps enhance economic resilience against external shocks, as well as the mechanisms through which such effects occur. Leveraging the rollout of the National Intellectual Property Model Cities (NIPMC) policy in China, this paper constructs a quasi-experimental framework that examines how IPP bolsters urban economic resilience (UER) and elucidates the mechanisms at work. Evidence from a city-level panel of 282 Chinese cities spanning 2010–2021, analyzed through a difference-in-differences strategy, indicates that the NIPMC policy exerts a positive and significant impact on urban economic resilience.Mechanism-oriented evidence suggests that the identified impact is primarily transmitted via three dimensions: an enlarged labor base, intensified knowledge diffusion, and the clustering of digital industries. In addition, the resilience-enhancing role of the NIPMC policy is stronger in cities characterized by more stringent IPP enforcement, more favorable trade credit environments, and locations in China’s central and western regions. Collectively, these results underscore the importance of IPP in reinforcing urban economic resilience through multiple structural channels.</p>

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The impact of intellectual property model city development on urban economic resilience

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    2026年7月21日

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  • Caiping Zhang,
  • Zhaoyuan Zhang,
  • Chengzhi Luo,
  • Deming Tan

摘要

Innovation drives technological progress and industrial development, which in turn fuels economic growth, while fair competition improves resource allocation and sustains market vitality. Intellectual property protection (IPP) acts as a vital instrument for catalyzing creativity and preserving a vibrant commercial ecosystem. However, there is still limited empirical evidence at the micro level regarding how IPP helps enhance economic resilience against external shocks, as well as the mechanisms through which such effects occur. Leveraging the rollout of the National Intellectual Property Model Cities (NIPMC) policy in China, this paper constructs a quasi-experimental framework that examines how IPP bolsters urban economic resilience (UER) and elucidates the mechanisms at work. Evidence from a city-level panel of 282 Chinese cities spanning 2010–2021, analyzed through a difference-in-differences strategy, indicates that the NIPMC policy exerts a positive and significant impact on urban economic resilience.Mechanism-oriented evidence suggests that the identified impact is primarily transmitted via three dimensions: an enlarged labor base, intensified knowledge diffusion, and the clustering of digital industries. In addition, the resilience-enhancing role of the NIPMC policy is stronger in cities characterized by more stringent IPP enforcement, more favorable trade credit environments, and locations in China’s central and western regions. Collectively, these results underscore the importance of IPP in reinforcing urban economic resilience through multiple structural channels.