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This study was done at an opportune time in Sri Lanka's history: with end of the war there is hope for the country's peace, prosperity, and growth. To encourage economic growth, this study examines how high technology can drive competitiveness in key export-oriented industries and help build a...
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upgrading. The overall evidence points to the benefits of trade openness for product innovation but demonstrates at the same …
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This note, prepared at the request of the Ministry of Economy and Development, aims to analyze selected opportunities for Mongolia to diversify its economy and identifies specific policy options to realize them. Mongolia's growing dependence on mining exports, primarily to China creates...
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find that competition has a negative effect on innovation, especially for firms further from the efficiency frontier, and … we do not find support for an inverted U effect of competition on innovation. The authors show that the supply chain of … multinational enterprises and international trade are important channels for domestic firms' innovation. They detect no evidence …
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substantially over the past decade. Lack of diversification cannot be pinned down to a single cause. Competition and innovation are … initiatives to foster innovation could be strengthened through a number of specific measures focusing on commercialization of … analysis of the role of exports, innovation, productivity, and competition on firm performance is presented in section three …
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This note provides a medium-term agenda for supporting Mexico's competitiveness by fostering greater innovation … Mexico's innovation policy agenda. While the firm is at the center of innovation, empirical evidence shows that public policy … can generate an external environment more conducive to innovation. The past decade has brought several policy changes and …
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The Central America region is a small market. The region contains around 43 million inhabitants (0.6 percent of total world population) who generate around 0.25 percent of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). While the region has successfully embarked on a regional integration agenda and...
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activities. Results show that lack of competition and entrepreneurial innovation are relevant obstacles to the emergence of new …
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