A functional review by the World Bank of Romania's research, development and innovation (RD&I) sector has been … extensive literature research and data analysis, as well as three missions to Bucharest in January, March, and April 2011 … World Bank Higher Education Review team and the EC's DG Research and Innovation -- presents observations and recommendations …

manufacturing sectors. The author assesses the predictions of inter-disciplinary research on innovation by firms. The econometric …

"The empirical evidence on whether participation in export markets increases plant-level productivity has been … productivity increases 4-5 percent for each additional year a plant has exported, after controlling for the effect of current … exports on total factor productivity. Learning-by-exporting is more important for young than for old plants and in industries …