Reports on the effects of government's role in stimulating technological development provide a mixed picture. Some policies have had the expected, stimulating effect and other...

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...

Interventions designed to support small and medium enterprises are popular among policy makers, given the role small and medium enterprises play in job...

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

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

World Bank Group management welcomes Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) review of innovation and entrepreneurship. The global financial crisis required...

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

The paper investigates the strength of innovation-driven employment growth, the role of competition in stimulating and facilitating it, and whether it is...

This note analyzes the impact that joining the Eurasian Customs Union will have on the Kyrgyz Republic s garment sector and options for improving the...

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