A Research Framework of the Influencing Factors of Overseas Patent Application

With the development of economic globalization, more and more enterprises have started to implement internationalization strategies. It is worth exploring what factors affect overseas patent applications as an essential part of enterprises’ internationalization strategies. Therefore, this paper presents a theoretical analysis of the factors influencing enterprises’ overseas patent applications from the enterprise level and proposes the hypothesis that enterprises’ exports and OFDI will promote their overseas patent applications, and considers that the overall technology level and market size of the host country play a positive moderating role in this regard. This framework sheds some new light on future studies.