Abstract: In the age of economic globalization and transition, China firms are facing new opportunities and challenges. Especially, the firms in high technology industries are urgent in need to change the development model and enhance the function of innovation driven to firm growth. Therefore, the importance of firm intellectual property development and construction of their capacity has been reached unprecedented heights. And, study about firm intellectual property capacity become a important theoretic problem. In the paper, we have discussed the relationship mechanism among firm intellectual property capacity, the construction of intellectual property capacity and the firm growth. And, internal and external factors affecting on firm intellectual property capacity have been analyzed. The empirical study using 103 China listed companies of computer application industry in Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange market found that there is significant positive relationship between firm intellectual property capacity and firm growth. Firm openness, technological level and input level are main internal factors affecting on firm intellectual property capacity. On the other hand, regional intellectual property protection degree , industrial openness, regional technological level are main external factors affecting on firm intellectual property capacity.

Key words: Firms&rsquo, growth

摘要： 在经济全球化和转型时代，我国企业面临着新的机遇和挑战，尤其是知识密集的高技术企业，急需转换发展模式，强化创新对发展的驱动作用。因此，企业对知识产权开发和相应能力的建设也被提到了前所未有之高度，对企业知识产权能力的研究成为急需探讨的理论问题。本文论述了企业知识产权能力、知识产权能力构成与企业成长性之间的关系机制，并在此基础上对知识产权能力构成的内外部影响因素展开进一步的探讨。通过对103家计算机应用上市企业的实证分析发现，知识产权能力与企业成长性之间存在显著关联。另一方面，企业的开放度、技术水平、投入水平是其知识产权能力形成的主要内部因素；而区域知识产权保护强度、产业开放性、产业技术水平则是其知识产权能力形成的主要外部因素。