ICT、geographic Proximitv And Enterprise Innovation

In the knowledge economy era, knowledge has become enterprises’most important resource. How acquire knowledge quickly and efficiently to promote business innovation is the question that modern enterprises must concern. It is also the key of enterprises’sustainable development. Knowledge resources is a competitive and some exclusive public goods, Knowledge spillover, which is the main way for enterprises to obtain knowledge, refers to knowledge voluntary or involuntary transfer between national, regional, corporate and personal. In recent years, the French School of proximity indicates the geographical proximity and other multidimensional proximity play an important role in enterprises innovation process. Industrial agglomeration can effectively promote the generation of knowledge spillovers by shortening the geographic distance between enterprises, namely enhancing geographical proximity, thereby it can enhance innovation and efficiency. At the same time, since the eighties, information technology wave sweeping across the world, ICT (information and communication technology) impacting on the enterprise innovation attracts also more and more people’s attention. While proximity theory requires companies increasingly "close", ICT brings people the new way to "shorten" the distance of enterprises, namely ICT solves a lot problems in the past can be solved only by geographical proximity, such as long-distance communications and other problems. In this context, this article analyses the relationship between innovation、ICT and geographical proximity from the perspective of the knowledge spillover, which has the great practical significance.Based on reviewing the results of previous studies, this paper analyses the relationship between geographic proximity, ICT and enterprises innovation. For the relationship between the three, previous studies often only analyzed the role of geographic proximity and common ICT for promoting innovation, but the relationship between ICT and geographic proximity is not well discussed. But minority articles that discuss the relationship between ICT and the geography proximity, lack the theoretical model and the real diagnosis examination support. Regarding this, this article creativity analyze the reciprocity between geography proximity and ICT in the process of promoting enterprise innovation from the two aspects of the theoretical model and the real diagnosis, making up the related research’s blank.In the aspect of theoretical model, predecessor’s research about the Counter-U relation between proximity and innovation obtained the results under the condition of without introducing the ICT’s impact. Analyzing the effects of ICT on proximity and innovation by introducing ICT into the analysis framework is still lacking. For this, this paper refers Krugman’s research methods、 Jean-Marc Callois’s (2008) micro-economic models and Zhengqiang Li’s improved model and introduces the ICT parameter to analyze the relationship between ICT, proximity and innovation, specially the relationship between ICT and geographic proximity.In terms of empirical research, this paper collects the provincial panel data of high-tech industries during2006-2012and refers Zhengqiang Li’s empirical model to analyze the relationship between ICT、proximity and innovation. Based on this, introducing the cross term of ICT and Proximity to analyze the relationship between ICT and proximity.Finally, based on the summary of relevant conclusions, this paper propose the following suggestion:continuing to promote the construction of high-tech zones, ensuring that the relevant industry cluster size, at the same time, focusing on supporting the development of supporting industries; strengthening exchanges and links between high-tech zones to avoid the generation of regional technology lock; promoting the construction of ICT infrastructure industries and accelerating the construction of enterprise informatization; focusing on intellectual property protection in the region to avoid the flooding of "free rider" phenomenon.