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The conclusion of various international intellectual property (IP) treaties has played an essential role in optimizing the international innovation and collaboration environment. This study investigates the effect of IP treaties on international innovation collaboration and whether international IP treaties can promote collaboration between a country and other economies in the world.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>After collecting and extracting the patent record data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), a final dataset of 3,213,626 cooperative patents and 465,236 pairs of collaborations between two countries or regions is established. Based on the international patent collaboration data of 192 countries during 1976\u20132017, the changes in patent collaboration indicators after these countries joined 23 IP treaties are analyzed.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>International IP treaties have significantly increased the number of patent cooperation countries of a country and its importance in international cooperation networks. The role of IP treaties is more manifested by the increased opportunities for a country's international innovation cooperation than its influence on global innovation; this is of extreme significance for developing countries to introduce advanced technologies.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>Ginarte and Park (1997) have confirmed that IP treaties have helped to raise the level of IP protection. In this study, the increase in the degree centrality of the international innovation network is evidence of IP treaties to promote innovation cooperation. For a developing country, joining an intellectual property treaty may strengthen intellectual property protection and optimize its own international innovation cooperation methods.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/lht-08-2020-0202","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,18]],"date-time":"2021-01-18T04:58:16Z","timestamp":1610945896000},"page":"666-682","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["The effect of intellectual property treaties on international innovation collaboration: a study based on USPTO patents during 1976\u20132017"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"41","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4883-7654","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"JianQin","family":"Xiang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Feicheng","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Haiyan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,19]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"key2023053016405588800_ref001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"103","DOI":"10.1111\/1467-6451.00114","article-title":"The structure of licensing contracts","volume":"48","year":"2000","journal-title":"The Journal of Industrial Economics"},{"issue":"2","key":"key2023053016405588800_ref002","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"163","DOI":"10.1140\/epjb\/e2004-00111-4","article-title":"Betweenness centrality in large complex networks","volume":"38","year":"2004","journal-title":"The European Physical Journal B"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2023053016405588800_ref003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1200","DOI":"10.1111\/twec.12741","article-title":"Does regulation drive international research cooperation? 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