How Patent Protection Policies and Collectivism Culture Together Impact National Innovation?

In order to disclose the impacting mechanisms of patent protection policies and collectivism on innovation, this study collected data from different sources for 26 countries, analyzed the main effect and the interactive effect of patent policies index of 2010 and collectivism culture of different kinds and sources on the innovation process and performance presented by different index from 2010–2012, containing innovation input, innovation output, GIl and GCI. There are some interesting results. This study confirms the specific effect of patent protection policy on innovation and the extensive effect of culture on innovation and comprehensive competitiveness. Besides, it reveals the negative moderating effect of the practice dimension of institution collectivism as well as positive moderating effect of the value dimension of in-group collectivism on the impact of patent policies on innovation.