Lin Yifu writes for People's Daily: Intellectual property protection protects innovation and development

How to formulate an intellectual property strategy that is suitable for the development stage and industry characteristics from the national and industrial levels is a topic of important academic and practical value.

Implementing new development concepts is the only way for my country to develop and grow in the new era. Among them, innovation is the first driving force and is of great significance to economic development. An important symptom of economic development is the continuous improvement of productivity and income levels. Technological innovation and the emergence of new productive forces will promote the continuous upgrading of existing industrial technologies, help workers produce more types of products with better quality, and at the same time promote the continuous emergence of new industries with higher added value. Labor, capital, Factors such as land can also be allocated from industries with lower added value to industries with higher added value. The book "China's Intellectual Property Strategy from the Perspective of New Structural Economics: Theory and Cases" written by Tang Heng, Wang Yong and Zhao Qiuyun combines innovation and intellectual property with the actual situation of the current development of different industries in my country. , to explore how to build a suitable intellectual property system to stimulate innovation potential and promote high-quality development.

After more than 40 years of rapid development since reform and opening up, my country's per capita GDP has reached about US$12,500, close to the threshold of US$13,845 for high-income countries. Compared with other countries in the world, my country has the most complete manufacturing industry. At present, major changes unseen in a century are accelerating and a new round of scientific and technological revolution is in the ascendant. How to seize the opportunity, coordinate development and security, and implement the new development concept completely, accurately and comprehensively? New structural economics divides my country's existing industries into five categories based on three criteria: the gap between the industry and the world's technological frontier, whether it meets comparative advantages, and the length of the technology research and development cycle of the industry. Each type of industry has different innovation methods.

The first category is catch-up industries. Compared with developed countries, this type of industry still has a technological gap and has the advantage of being a latecomer. Many traditional equipment manufacturing industries fall into this category. The second category is leading industries, such as home appliances, shipbuilding, high-speed rail, mobile communication terminals and other industries. my country's technology in these fields is at the forefront of the world. The third category is transformational industries. In this type of industry, my country had comparative advantages in the past. As capital accumulation and wage levels increase, it needs to be upgraded to both ends of the "smile curve" or moved to places with lower wage levels to create a second spring. Labor-intensive processing industries fall into this category. The fourth category is the lane-changing overtaking car industry. The technology research and development cycle of this type of industry is very short. A new product or new technology is usually developed in a few months. The main investment in technology research and development is human capital, big data, artificial intelligence, etc. Many industries in the fourth industrial revolution, such as intelligence, fall into this category. In this lane-changing and overtaking vehicle industry, my country, with its abundant human capital, ultra-large domestic market and the most complete hardware manufacturing industry, not only stands on the same starting line as developed countries, but also has unique advantages. The fifth category is strategic industries. The research and development cycle of its products is very long, which may be 10 or 20 years. It requires a large amount of human capital investment and financial support. This type of industry is not yet in line with the comparative advantages of our country's current development stage. , but when it comes to national defense and economic security, even if we have no comparative advantage, we must develop independently with a new national system.

The innovation methods of these five types of industries are different, but whether they are leading industries relying on independent research and development, overtaking industries, strategic industries, or transitional industries that move to both ends of the "smile curve", they can still adopt the introduction Catch-up industries that digest, absorb, and then re-emerge as sources of new technologies need intellectual property protection methods that are compatible with their technological innovation methods. Only in this way can they improve new productivity through innovation and promote technological progress and industrial development.

How to formulate an intellectual property strategy that is suitable for the development stage and industry characteristics from the national and industrial levels is a topic of important academic and practical value. "Intellectual Property Strategy" takes new structural economics as the basic principle, focuses on the above-mentioned five major industrial classifications, and demonstrates China's exploration and practice in economics and intellectual property system innovation. The book also integrates the basic functions of "innovation law" and "industrial law" of intellectual property, discusses the process of building a powerful country in intellectual property in my country, and attempts to provide new ideas at the strategic level to take advantage of the situation and promote the transformation of my country's industry from comparative advantage to competitive advantage, and provide Promoting domestic industrial enterprises to take advantage of the situation provides a useful reference, and also provides the world with a window to understand China, demonstrating China's responsibilities and achievements as a world power.