Based on Social Anomie theory and Institutional theory,this paper investigates the relationship between the corruption of different regions and firms' innovation activities using the micro data on manufacturing firms from 2005 to 2007.The empirical results shows,firstly,both RD investment and new products sales had significant negative correlation with corruption; secondly,the negative relationship only exits in the domestic enterprises and a positive relationship is found in the foreigner enterprises; the depressing effect of corruption are m...