Intellectual property creation and innovative resilience in strategic emerging industries

Chen Qian, Qi Yong, Zhang Guiyang, Deng Yuting

Science Research Management ›› 2026, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (8) : 198-208.

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Science Research Management ›› 2026, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (8) : 198-208. DOI: 10.19571/j.cnki.1000-2995.2026.08.020  CSTR: 32148.14.kygl.2026.08.020

Intellectual property creation and innovative resilience in strategic emerging industries

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With the increasingly fierce international competition, it is significant to explore deeply intellectual property creation to enhance the innovation resilience of China's strategic emerging industries. Taking 421 listed strategic emerging enterprises from 2018—2022 as research samples, this paper adopted a spatial econometric model to analyze the mechanism of intellectual property creation on the innovation resilience of strategic emerging industries based on the spatial mediation perspective of advanced human capital structure and technological diversification. The empirical results showed that:firstly, intellectual property creation directly contributes to the enhancement of innovation resilience in strategic emerging industries, and there is a spatial dependence effect on the enhancement of innovation resilience among strategic emerging enterprises driven by intellectual property creation. Secondly, intellectual property creation has a crowding-out effect on low-level human capital and a demand-increasing effect on high-level human capital, leading to an advanced human capital structure. Thirdly, the advanced human capital structure has a positive spatial mediation effect in the spatial relationship between intellectual property creation and innovation resilience in strategic emerging industries. Fourthly, technological diversification has a negative spatial mediation effect in the spatial relationship between intellectual property creation and innovation resilience of strategic emerging industries, because it is necessary for enterprises to reduce technological diversification and focus on core technological fields to form core competitiveness. The above findings have theoretically enriched the academic research on the factors and mechanisms influencing intellectual property creation and industrial innovation resilience and practically will provide diversified new perspectives on the path of enhancing innovation resilience of strategic emerging industries.

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intellectual property creation / advanced human capital structure / technological diversification / innovation resilience / spatial mediation effects

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Chen Qian , Qi Yong , Zhang Guiyang , et al. Intellectual property creation and innovative resilience in strategic emerging industries[J]. Science Research Management. 2026, 47(8): 198-208 https://doi.org/10.19571/j.cnki.1000-2995.2026.08.020

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