Information technology and economic growth - The empirical research based on spatial econometric model

Abstract

With the rapid development of electronic technology and internet, information technology has become one of the important element in economic activities and has great effect on economic growth. This paper attempts to do the spatial exploratory data analysis of IT and economic data, aims at discovering the spatial dependence and spatial clustering of region IT and economic growth in China mainland, and based on it, the paper build the spatial econometric model of IT and economic growth to explore the quantitative relationship between IT and economic growth in China. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.