Research on the Trust-Driven Mechanism of Enterprises’ Intellectual Property Cooperation Optimization in China

Li-Jun Ma, Heng Tang and Jian-Ya Zhou

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2025, vol. 61, issue 14, 4479-4499

Abstract: This study discusses the trust-driven mechanism of open innovation under intellectual property cooperation. The paradox of openness is a prominent problem in open innovation, reflected as the paradox of openness of intellectual property rights in intellectual property cooperation. Based on the sample data of 400 open innovation enterprises in China, this study analyzes the optimization mechanism of trust on open innovation performance through structural equation model. It incorporates intellectual property rights into the research framework, to provide theoretical support for driving open innovation. The results show that trust guarantee contributes to the optimization of trust mechanism, and the two jointly drive the governance of open innovation paradox, thus improving the performance of open innovation. However, competence trust cannot promote the protection of enterprise intellectual property, and reputation trust cannot facilitate the transformation of enterprise intellectual property.

Date: 2025
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