Recent U.S.-China tensions have raised the specter of technological decoupling. This paper examines the impact of U.S. export restrictions and technology licensing on Chinese firms’ innovation. It finds...
Innovation is crucial to improving productivity and fostering sustainable growth, especially among countries that are moving toward or are at the cutting edge of technological advances (technology frontier)...
This report presents the results of the benchmarking analysis carried out in 2021, which is a combined analysis of the results from the 2018-2019 benchmarking exercise and the 2021 flow-on exercise, as...
This report analyzes the start-up ecosystem in Tokyo and the greater surrounding area in Japan in the transition of the innovation model to a hybrid of traditional public sector-university-corporation...
This paper employs a matched firm production/innovation panel data set from Chile to explore the response of firm innovation to the increased competition arising from the China shock. In addition to covering...
This paper studies the impact of foreign direct investment on domestic firms’ innovation in China. It provides causal evidence by exploiting China’s foreign direct investment deregulation in 2002 and employs...
This paper uses the World Bank database on deep trade agreements to demonstrate the rapid increase in preferential trade agreements with standards of intellectual property protection that are enforceable...
This paper analyzes the growth pathways of 1,321 regions in the European Union from 2003 to 2017. The aim is to inform integrated territorial investments and other economic development initiatives in lagging...
The Joint Data Center's first issue of the Quarterly Digest on Forced Displacement examines the long-term impact of historical episodes of large-scale forced displacement. The digest highlights three salient...
The Earth's climate has already begun to change and will inevitably continue to do so. Even if the targets set in the Paris Agreement are met—to keep the global surface temperature increase below 2 degrees...
China considers innovation be one of the key drivers of its future growth and convergence with more developed countries. It spends more than 2.2 percent of GDP on R&D, above the average for the European...
Embedding management and operational practices survey in a broader firm capabilities survey, this report finds that: (i) relative to the rest of Croatia, an average firm in the lagging region of the country...
This report presents the results of the benchmarking analysis carried out in 2018-2019 as part of the Partnership for skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (PASET) Regional Benchmarking...
This paper investigates the current state of creation and adoption of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies within the Czech Republic. I4.0 technologies, which include technologies such as big data analytics...
This paper describes and benchmarks innovation activities for a sample of countries in the South Asia region, as well as the impact of these activities on firm-level productivity. The evidence gathered...
The paper deals with the economics of sustainability associated with the transformation of energy markets. It emphasizes the interrelations between technical changes and energy markets and how in turn...
EU cohesion policy is designed to reduce disparities between Member states and regions across the European Union. However, some European regions have struggled to catch-up to wider EU growth. Hence, the...