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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and Industrialization

Acs, Zoltan J.; Wim Naudï¿½ - 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...

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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...

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Exporting and productivity: The role of ownership and innovation in the case of Vietnam

Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Thi Tue Anh, Nguyen - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11. We separate out productivity effects of exporting due to self-selection allowing u

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The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based Micro and Small Enterprises Development

Sonobe, Tetsushi; Otsuka, Keijiro - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

While it has been increasingly recognized that efficient management holds the key to the development of micro and small enterprises in developing countries, we know very little about the managerial capacity of business owners and managers in these countri

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Innovation at the World Bank: Selective perspectives over three decades 1975-2005

Grawe, Roger - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

-year experience as a World Bank staff member, the author takes an institutional perspective on the innovation climate at the World …

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South Sudan.s capability trap: Building a state with disruptive innovation

Ajak, Peter Biar; Pritchett, Lant - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

The prevailing aid orthodoxy works well enough in stable environments, but is ill-equipped to navigate contexts of volatility and fragility. The orthodox approach is adept at solving straightforward technical or logistical problems (paving roads, building

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Explaining positive deviance in public sector reforms in development

Andrews, Matt - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

Public sector reforms are commonplace in developing countries. Much of the literature about these reforms reflects on their failures. This paper asks about the successes and investigates which of two competing theories best explain why some reforms exhibi

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