Abstract:The intellectual property environment is generally divided into intellectual property system, intellectual property service, and intellectual property awareness. Based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2012 to 2019, this paper studies the impact of intellectual property environment on regional innovation performance and its impact path. The results show that there is an obvious positive correlation between the quality of intellectual property environment and regional innovation output, and there is an intermediary adjustment effect of financial development and R&D investment. Crowding out effects to promote innovation. Therefore, in the critical period of the transformation of the economic structure, creating a good intellectual property environment is the proper meaning of building an innovative society.