Caribbean Region"--World Bank web site …

authors find that the stock of human capital, the level of domestic innovation and technological adaptation, and the level of ….15 percentage point. In terms of innovation, the authors find that a 20 percent increase in the annual number of USPTO patents … to increase by 0.11 percentage point. This paper a product of the Global Knowledge and Learning Division, World Bank …

reduces home country fertility by about 0.3 percent for origin countries. "--World Bank web site …

contrast, domestic regulatory impediments to competition are not robustly correlated with product innovation. "--World Bank web …"It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliche to say so. This … article studies product innovation by firms with data from 68 countries, covering more than 25,000 firms in eight …

"New data from the 2008 World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey indicates a very strong and statistically significant … fostering formal sector entrepreneurship. "--World Bank web site … relationship between entrepreneurship and a better business environment. Data for 100 countries on the number of total and newly …

Entrepreneurship is of fundamental importance as a catalyst for innovation, job creation, and economic well …-being. Policymakers have a strong interest in promoting entrepreneurship given that its development is necessary for fighting poverty and … unemployment. This paper is an initial contribution to help fill gap, performing a systematic review of Entrepreneurship Education …

the policies to forestall them. The paper concludes by identifying directions for future research. "--World Bank web site …

larger effort in the group to understand the sources of growth and volatility"--World Bank web site …