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...

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Information about the success of a new technology is usually held asymmetrically between the research and development (R&D)-performing firm...

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

Information about the success of a new technology is usually held asymmetrically between the research and development (R&D)-performing firm and potential lenders 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,...

This book seeks to understand how firms in southern Africa absorb technology and how policy makers can hurry the process along. It identifies channels of...

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

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