Matching grants are one of the most common types of private sector development programs used in developing countries. But government subsidies to private...

The paper explores existing patterns of green innovation and presents an overview of green innovation policies for developing countries. The key...

Matching grants are one of the most common policy instruments used by developing country governments to try to foster technological upgrading,...

The objective of this report is to examine the potential of locational data for the 'science of delivery' in the field of development. The...

Sustained improvements in living standards depend on broad-based economic growth. This will only take place when firms improve worker productivity by...

During the 1990s, foreign direct investment in producer service sectors in Latin America was massive. Such investment may increase the quality of...

In January 2008, the Turkish Government requested the World Bank to jointly undertake an assessment of its National Innovation System (NIS) in order to...

As the global stock of ideas expands and diffuses across and within countries, technological learning is poised to become an even more important...

This book seeks to understand how firms in southern Africa absorb technology and how policy makers can hurry the process along. It identifies channels of...

The cases from the forum presented here capture the lessons from the science, technology, and innovation (STI) capacity building experiences of both...

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...

Sustained improvements in living standards depend on broad-based economic growth. This will only take place when firms improve worker productivity by...

This paper explores fundamental issues affecting technology commercialization of publicly funded research and development (R&D) in the Russian...