| Influencing factors | Specific influencing factors | Researchers |
| Incentive motivation | Measuring internal performance Achieving personal goals Stimulating employees (money, promotion and mental stimulation) Obtaining patent financing | Harabi, Duguet and Kabla, Schalk, Cohen et al. |
| Honorary motivation | The number of patents driven by government assessment indicators The requirements for high-tech enterprise certification Improving technical images Increasing enterprise value | Liu S., Duguet and Kabla |
| Transaction motivation | Improving cooperation position Promoting of exchange potential Having access to capital markets Obtaining license revenue | Harabi, Schalk, Cohen, Liu S. |
| Blocking motivation | Blocking competitors actively Blocking competitors passively | Harabi, Duguet and Kabla, OECD, Schalk, Cohen, Liu S. et al. |
| Protection motivation | Avoiding innovation to be imitated Protecting markets (domestic and foreign markets) Becoming industry standards of patents | Harabi, Duguet and Kabla, OECD, Schalk, Cohen et al. |