| Influencing factors | Specific influencing factors | Researchers |
| Internal factors | Corporate human resources and staffing levels | Bae and Chen, Liu S.-S., Liu X.-X., Liu T.-T. |
| The quality of entrepreneurs | Darroch, Miles, Muisson, | |
| Enterprise scale | Schumpeter, Brouwer and Kleinknecht | |
| Enterprise innovation ability | SIPO, Xu M.-H. | |
| Enterprise learning ability | Li W. | |
| External factors | Innovative sources of information needed | Arundel |
| Industrial characteristics | Arundel | |
| Regional economic growth | Li W. | |
| Patent system and policy | Li W. | |
| Intellectual property culture | Li W. |