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China's Regional Inequality in Innovation Capability, 1995-2004
Fan, Peilei; Wan, Guanghua - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006
capability in China. It is found that at the regional level, China's inequality in innovation capability increased from 1995 to …Relying on a recently developed decomposition framework, this paper explores spatial distribution of innovation … inequality in innovation capability. Unbalanced development in high-tech parks exerts a growing explanatory power in driving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059828
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Export Diversity and Regional Growth: Empirical Evidence from South Africa
Matthee, Marianne; Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007
This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between exports, and in particular export diversity, and regional growth in a developing country context. Using export data for 19 sectors from 354 subnational (magisterial) districts of South Africa, we construct various measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031888
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ICT Diffusion and Skill Upgrading in Korean Industries
Hur, Jai-Joon; Seo, Hwan-Joo; Lee, Young Soo - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970114
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The Corporate Digital Divide: Determinants of Internet Adoption
Forman, Christopher - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031770
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Market Concentration, Firm Size and Innovative Activity: A Firm-level Economic Analysis of Selected Indian Industries under Economic Liberalization
Subodh, Kandamuthan - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005033066
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Love Thy Neighbour? Evidence from Ethnic Discrimination in Information Sharing within Villages
Romani, Mattia - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004
dataset collected in C.te d?Ivoire to define the probability of accessing the knowledge network. The main results indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059841
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Does Lack of Innovation and Absorptive Capacity Retard Economic Growth in Africa?
Onyeiwu, Steve - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
This paper reviews the innovative capabilities and absorptive capacities of African countries, and investigates whether they have played significant roles in the region’s slow and episodic economic growth. Results from cross-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002152
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009140862
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Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and Industrialization
Acs, Zoltan J.; Wim Naud� - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366435
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Learning from Asia’s Success Beyond Simplistic ‘Lesson-Making’
Hobday, Mike - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
Many international organizations, governments and academics concerned with economic development look to Asia’s success, recommending that other poor countries follow similar models and paths of development. This study argues that such Asian ‘lesson-making’ is a grave mistake in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009275346