The main question that guides this paper is how governments are focusing (and must focus) on competence building (education and training) when designing and implementing...

This book builds on the lessons from public institutions and programs to support innovation, both successful and failed, from Europe and Central Asia...

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...

Improving the ability of Europe and Central Asia (ECA) countries to tap into the global technology pool is an important mechanism for accelerating...