Relationship between economic liberalization and intellectual property protection with regional innovation in China. A case study of Chinese provinces

• Muhammad Qayyum ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Qayyum, Yuyuan Yu, Mir Muhammad Nizamani

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Economics, Hainan University, Haikou, China

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• Yuyuan Yu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Qayyum, Yuyuan Yu, Mir Muhammad Nizamani

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of International Economics and Trade, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China

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• Tingting Tu ,

  Roles Project administration, Visualization

  * E-mail: tutingt12@163.com

  Affiliation School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China

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• Mir Muhammad Nizamani ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Qayyum, Yuyuan Yu, Mir Muhammad Nizamani

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou, China

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• Afaq Ahmad,

  Roles Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China, Institute of Business, Management and Administrative Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

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• Minhaj Ali

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Economics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China

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