This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of high-skilled individuals ? i.e., inventors ? on international technological collaborations. By means of gravity...

Innovation is the main driver of long-term economic growth. The accumulation of capital, whether in the form of physical assets such as plants and...

Policy makers around the world recognize the potentially harmful consequences of trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy. Indeed, many countries...

Inclusive innovation seeks to expand access to essential goods and services, thereby improving quality of life, and enhancing economic empowerment...

There is a growing consensus that what you export matters for growth (see for instance, Haussman and al. 2007 and Krishna and Maloney (2011)). This paper examines whether and to...

Russia's science and technology diaspora is too visible and successful to evade attention from home. However, the public debate in Russia so far has been...

This paper examines whether natural resource dependence has a negative influence on various indicators of institutional quality when controlling for the...

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...

This paper aims to discuss the use of tax incentives for the promotion of business expenditures on Research and Development (RD). In the 1980s, only a...

The note looks at what it takes for countries, and firms to "learn how to learn". Education is vital, for at least two reasons. First, it has...

The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights negotiated in 1986 under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and...

The workshop brings diverse perspectives from outside the World Bank, providing a forum in which to exchange ideas and debate in the course of developing...

The last decade has witnessed two interesting features in international trade. First, high-tech products have become the fastest growing segment...

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...