Updates are available Correction dated 2024-01-19

Article History

Received: 12 July 2022

Accepted: 13 April 2023

First Online: 15 May 2023

Change Date: 19 January 2024

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:

Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02673-7

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: It was confirmed that the research complied with ethical standards and was performed in accordance with relevant guidelines/regulations of the Academic Board of the Institute of Intellectual Property, School of Public Affairs, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.

: Prior to engaging the participants of this study, emails were administered to each party’s address to solicit their consent/participation. Participants engaged were those who showed interest, sent replies, and cooperated throughout the survey. The authors assured them of their anonymity and that their responses would be treated with the highest form of confidentiality. Out of the 500 sampled participants, 423 (84.6%) of them sent their answered questionnaires. The remaining 77 declined.