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INVENTOR DIASPORAS AND THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF TECHNOLOGY
This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of high-skilled individuals ? i.e., inventors ? on international technological collaborations. By means of gravity... -
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... -
Identifying and spurring high-growth entrepreneurship -- experimental evidenc...
Almost all firms in developing countries have fewer than 10 workers, with the modal firm consisting of just the owner. Are there potential high-growth... -
The Additionality Impact of a Matching Grant Program for Small Firms: Experim...
Matching grants are one of the most common types of private sector development programs used in developing countries. But government subsidies to private... -
The Impact of Business Support Services for Small and Medium Enterprises on F...
Interventions designed to support small and medium enterprises are popular among policy makers, given the role small and medium enterprises play in job... -
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,... -
Greening Global Value Chains : Innovation and the International Diffusion of ...
Using novel data on patents, trade of equipment goods, and foreign direct investments and insights from the economic literature, the paper seeks to lay... -
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... -
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... -
Intellectual Property Rights and the TRIPS Agreement : An Overview of Ethical...
The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights negotiated in 1986 under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and... -
Competition and Innovation-Driven Inclusive Growth
The paper investigates the strength of innovation-driven employment growth, the role of competition in stimulating and facilitating it, and whether it is... -
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... -
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... -
Productivity, Innovation and Growth in Sri Lanka : An Empirical Investigation
This study investigates the impact of key business environment indicators on productivity, innovation, and growth in Sri Lanka through a cluster-level... -
Why Don't Poor Countries Do R&D?
Using a global panel on research and development (R&D) expenditures, this paper documents that on average poor countries do far less R&D than...