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Technology and knowledge play important roles in shaping regional economic resilience and are essential keys to fostering high-quality regional development. The paper utilizes domestic and foreign trade data, as well as economic and social development data, from 2001 to 2016 across 30 provinces in China. It aims to depict the characteristics of regional economic resilience and product space, conducting empirical analysis the impact of structure of knowledge-based product space on regional economic resilience. The objective is to explore how regions can promote structural transformation and economic development through knowledge networks. The study revealed that the relationship between knowledge contained within the product space is the key factor shaping economic resilience, particularly in terms of the existing knowledge nodes and the density between these nodes in the network. Owing to the impact of knowledge proximity, the process of promoting economic resilience through a relatively concentrated knowledge network is a path-dependent process. However, an excessive similarity between knowledge may lead to path locking. Therefore, our emphasis is on the structural relationships among knowledge within the region, providing a valuable an important supplement to the investigation of factors influencing economic resilience in networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Against the background of 'brain circulation' between developed and developing economies, latecomer firms (LCFs) in Taiwan and India were dedicated to attracting international talent to improve their innovation performance in order to catch up with leading global firms. Inspired by their success, LCFs in mainland China are carrying out a similar internationalisation strategy. However, it is debatable whether international talent can promote their innovation performance due to their business model of 'Technology outside, market inside', which is different from the 'Technology outside, market outside' model of Taiwanese and Indian firms. In this paper, we attempt to identify the relationship between international talent and the innovation performance of mainland Chinese LCFs, as well as other factors influencing their relationship, by studying 4,685 mainland Chinese enterprises in Zhangjiang National Innovation Demonstration Zone, Shanghai. The results show that there is a curvilinear relationship (U-shaped) between international talent and a firm's innovation performance, and both the internationalisation of R&D and export positively moderate the relationship between international talent and the firm's innovation performance. This paper has important practical implications showing that it is essential to enhance the embeddedness of international talent within firms to promote the innovation capacities of LCFs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]