A functional review by the World Bank of Romania's research, development and innovation (RD&I) sector has been … conducted a workshop with major stakeholders to review report findings. This final report -- prepared in collaboration with the … World Bank Higher Education Review team and the EC's DG Research and Innovation -- presents observations and recommendations …

"Using a new global data base on patents and innovation inputs, the authors examine the process of knowledge creation … developing countries by testing for the impact of measures of the functioning of the national innovation system-the set of …

's current R and D performance, and then looks into the recurrent levels of spending on R and D, and how the spending is … administered, identifying key constraining factors that affect Indonesia's R and D performance. With the available data and …

Local innovation refers to the dynamics of IK - the knowledge that grows within a social group, incorporating learning … of thinking and doing. Local innovation is the process through which individuals or groups discover or develop new and …

innovation. …

, financing the program, choosing an organizational structure, adapting to the innovation ecosystem and the role for the public … operationalizing a venture acceleration network in Russia. Venture acceleration network experiments highlight a multitude of challenges …

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 …

"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. The authors …