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Chile : Toward a Cohesive and Well Governed National Innovation System
Chile is increasingly looking to innovation as a pillar of its competitiveness and an engine of growth to close the income gap with the Organization for... -
The Economic Effects of Counterfeiting and Piracy : A Review and Implications...
Policy makers around the world recognize the potentially harmful consequences of trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy. Indeed, many countries... -
Are Natural Resources Cursed? An Investigation of the Dynamic Effects of Reso...
This paper examines whether natural resource dependence has a negative influence on various indicators of institutional quality when controlling for the... -
Green growth, technology and innovation
The paper explores existing patterns of green innovation and presents an overview of green innovation policies for developing countries. The key... -
Learning from the Experiments That Never Happened : Lessons from Trying to Co...
Matching grants are one of the most common policy instruments used by developing country governments to try to foster technological upgrading,... -
Female Business Ownership and Informal Sector Persistence
The informal sector in India has been exceptionally persistent over the past two decades. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily. This paper shows that a... -
The Exceptional Persistence of India's Unorganized Sector
The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional economic equality. This... -
Korea and the BICs (Brazil, India and China) : Catching Up Experiences
This paper tests a neo-Schumpeterian model with industry-level data to analyze how Brazil, India, and China are catching up with South Korea s... -
Transforming Arab Economies : Traveling Knowledge and Innovation Road, Overview
Over the past decade, some countries of the Middle East and North Africa region have spurred economic growth and improved their global competitiveness by... -
Biotechnology Innovation for Inclusive Growth : A Study of Indian Policies to...
This paper describes and analyzes a series of complementary policy initiatives in India to adapt and commercialize existing global biotechnologies to... -
Globalization and Ttechnology Absorption in Europe and Central Asia : The Rol...
This study analyzes the extent of knowledge and technology absorption for firms in Europe and Central Asia (ECA), as well as the factors that influence... -
Science, Technology, and Innovation in Uganda : Recommendations for Policy an...
Between 2006 and 2010 the World Bank sought to unmask the role of science, technology, and innovation in Ugandan industry. This report presents... -
Turkey - National Innovation and Technology System : Recent Progress and Ongo...
In January 2008, the Turkish Government requested the World Bank to jointly undertake an assessment of its National Innovation System (NIS) in order to... -
Building Knowledge Economies : Advanced Strategies for Development
Knowledge has always been an essential force in economic development. Chapter one, describes the knowledge revolution, which is leading us into a... -
The Impact of Government Support on Firm R&D Investments : A Meta-Analysis
This paper applies meta-analysis techniques to a sample of 37 studies published during 2004-2011. These papers assess the impact of direct... -
Strengthening China's Technological Capability
China is increasing its outlay on research and development and seeking to build an innovation system that will deliver quick results not just in... -
Public and Private Investments in Innovation Capabilities : Structural Transf...
This paper assembles novel data on the Chilean wine industry to investigate the role of investments in knowledge capital on sales growth in domestic and... -
Toward an Innovation Policy for Pakistan
This policy paper aims to assist policy makers, as they develop the Pakistan Innovation Policy, with an independent assessment of where Pakistan stands... -
Human Capital and University-Industry Linkages' Role in Fostering Firm Innova...
A firm's absorptive capacity, human capital and linkages with knowledge institutions have been shown to increase the firm's probability of innovating... -
What Explains Big Gender Disparities in India? Local Industrial Structures an...
Despite rapid economic growth, gender disparities in women's economic participation have remained deep and persistent in India. What explains these...
