The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed recently by the theoretical and empirical literature. Moreover the intensity of knowledge externalities in generating innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth...

This paper examines spatial dependence in China's regional innovation using the spatial econometric approach. Dataset covers 30 Chinese provinces for the period from 2000 to 2009. The main findings are as follows: First, an interdependent and simultaneous influential relation in regional...