Rapid and consistent economic growth of Ethiopia over the past decade has contributed to reducing the number of people living in poverty. The Government...

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...

This paper examines how two historically low-technology economies, Finland and Israel, assumed leadership in new, rapid innovation-based industries. The...

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

Kenya s economy has undergone a significant process of structural transformation over the last decade. Since 2002, the economy has shown an...

This set of three case studies explores the intersection of openness, digital governance, andhigh quality information in Estonia,1 Finland, and Norway...

There has long been a keen interest from countries around the world in Australia's experience in creating an evaluation system to support evidence-based...

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

Almost all firms in developing countries have fewer than 10 workers, with the modal firm consisting of just the owner. Are there potential high-growth...

Matching grants are one of the most common types of private sector development programs used in developing countries. But government subsidies to private...

A public economics framework is used to consider how pharmaceuticals should be priced when at least some of the research and development incentive comes...

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...

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

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 paper explores existing patterns of green innovation and presents an overview of green innovation policies for developing countries. The key...

This report stats that income gaps among countries are largely explained by differences in productivity. By raising the capital/labor ratio and rapidly...

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

The purpose of this report is to show how development issues and policy initiatives shaped the design and structure of the science, technology, and...