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...

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

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...

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...

Key factors driving self-sustained, long-term economic growth are innovation and technology absorption; these factors are generated from within the...

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

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

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...