The World Bank is uniquely positioned to identify and disseminate innovative development practices. Based on his thirty …-year experience as a World Bank staff member, the author takes an institutional perspective on the innovation climate at the World … Bank focusing on dominant development paradigms, client and stakeholder relationships and the organization's operational …

We investigate whether social trust improves corporate innovation. Based on a comprehensive firm- level panel dataset …, firms in high-trust countries have higher innovation output as measured by number of patents and citations. We also find … that greater trust is associated with i) higher levels of innovation investment, ii) less volatile innovation investment …

freedoms and tolerance. It is argued that tolerance is essential for innovation because its creates an open environment where … freedom is more nuanced towards additional social factors, such as the role of trust and other institutions. This paper re …-investigates whether and to which extent notions of social and institutional trust affect the impact of tolerance on innovation using an …