The industrial society reform begins and steps into a new knowledge society in nowadays era of knowledge-driven economy. With the development of knowledge characters and connotation, the idea of intellectual property management develops accordingly, which highlights the importance of knowledge protection. However, in the era of knowledge-driven economy, universities are source of the national innovative knowledge, but still have disadvantages in intellectual property management. In this paper, an effective design idea of university intellectual property management system was proposed by combining existing associated research results and functions of the designed system were analyzed. Finally, related countermeasures and suggestions were proposed to perfect the university intellectual property management system in China.