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Chile : Toward a Cohesive and Well Governed National Innovation System
Chile is increasingly looking to innovation as a pillar of its competitiveness and an engine of growth to close the income gap with the Organization for... -
Catching Up to the Technological Frontier? : Understanding Firm-level Innovat...
Kenya s economy has undergone a significant process of structural transformation over the last decade. Since 2002, the economy has shown an... -
Financing Pharmaceutical Innovation: How Much Should Poor Countries Contribute?
A public economics framework is used to consider how pharmaceuticals should be priced when at least some of the research and development incentive comes... -
Are Jordan and Tunisia's Exports Becoming More Technologically Sophisticated?...
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... -
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... -
From Technological Catch-up to Innovation : The Future of China’s GDP Growth
This report stats that income gaps among countries are largely explained by differences in productivity. By raising the capital/labor ratio and rapidly... -
Bulgaria - Investment Climate Assessment : Volume 2. Detailed Report
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 Support for Innovation and Entrepreneurship : An Independent...
World Bank Group management welcomes Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) review of innovation and entrepreneurship. The global financial crisis required... -
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... -
Innovation for Development and the Role of Government : A Perspective from th...
This book is the result of a joint forum on 'innovation for development' held by the World Bank and the China-based Asia-Pacific Finance and... -
Promoting Enterprise-led Innovation in China
China has made remarkable gains in industrialization and development. Over the past three decades, it has maintained gross domestic product (GDP)... -
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... -
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... -
iMENA - Learning from the Innovation Policy Experience in Eastern Europe, Kor...
Innovation is often touted as a key component in unleashing private sector growth and the dynamism necessary for solving the Middle East and North... -
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... -
Bulgaria - Investment Climate Assessment : Volume 1. Overview
Sustained improvements in living standards depend on broad-based economic growth. This will only take place when firms improve worker productivity by... -
Human Capital and University-Industry Linkages' Role in Fostering Firm Innova...
A firm's absorptive capacity, human capital and linkages with knowledge institutions have been shown to increase the firm's probability of innovating... -
Technology Absorption by Innovative SMEs : Knowledge Economy Forum VII, Ancon...
These proceedings highlight the key findings and public policy lessons that emerged from the Knowledge Economy Forum VII (KEF VII) on Technology... -
Igniting Innovation : Rethinking the Role of Government in Emerging Europe an...
This book builds on the lessons from public institutions and programs to support innovation, both successful and failed, from Europe and Central Asia... -
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...
