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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... -
Russian Federation - Export Diversification through Competition and Innovatio...
Russia's exports became further dominated by petroleum and natural gas over the last decade. The sector experienced double-digit annual export growth in... -
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... -
Competition and Innovation-Driven Inclusive Growth
The paper investigates the strength of innovation-driven employment growth, the role of competition in stimulating and facilitating it, and whether it is... -
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...
