Abstract: Under the background of China vigorously promoting the construction of open innovation ecology, how enterprises can use the Internet platform to accelerate global technology exchange and promote patents overseas has become an important content of high-quality ‘going out’ for Chinese enterprises. On the basis of clarifying the intrinsic mechanism of the influence of corporate internetisation on overseas patent applications, this paper empirically examines the influence of internetisation on corporate patents going abroad by applying the data of overseas patent applications filed by Chinese GEM listed companies from 2009 to 2021. It is found that the Internetisation of enterprises has a positive incentive effect on patent technology going overseas, which significantly increases the number of overseas patent applications by enterprises, and the conclusion still holds after a series of robustness tests. The mechanism test shows that enterprise internetisation helps its patents to go overseas by improving its collaborative innovation ability and reducing its operating costs. Further research finds that Internetisation has a more obvious effect on promoting overseas patent applications of enterprises with a higher degree of market competition and larger scale. The conclusion of this paper provides a useful reference for promoting Chinese enterprises to actively layout their patents overseas and then improve the international influence of technology.

摘要： 在中国大力推进开放创新生态建设的背景下，企业如何利用互联网平台加快全球技术交流，促进专利出海，成为中国企业高质量“走出去”的一项重要内容。本文在厘清企业互联网化影响海外专利申请内在机制的基础上，应用2009—2021年中国创业板上市公司海外申请专利数据，实证考察了互联网化对企业专利出海的影响效应。研究发现，企业互联网化对专利技术出海具有正向激励作用，显著提高了企业的海外专利申请量，且该结论在经过一系列稳健性检验后仍然成立。机制检验表明，企业互联网化通过提高企业协同创新能力、降低运营成本等途径，助力其专利出海。进一步研究发现，互联网化对市场竞争程度较高和规模较大企业海外专利申请的推动效果更为明显。本文结论为推动我国企业积极布局专利出海，进而提高技术国际影响力提供有益参考。