The paper analyses the rapid progress and the consequences of China's integration in Asian production networks. International processing activities, based on Asian inputs and mainly carried out by Asian affiliates have been the engine of China's trade expansion in the nineties. China's position...

This paper sheds new light on the negative effect of spatial distance on knowledge flows. We show that it is rooted in the dynamics of the innovation network formation over firms' life-cycles: young and small firms have contacts near them, and progressively expand their network. Using patent...