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Innovation Policy for Development: An Overview

Trajtenberg, Manuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

This presentation on innovation policy development broadens the notion of innovation to include all sorts of "process … innovations" and organizational changes. Then it describes innovation and growth in a historical perspective to conclude that … innovation policies for development should include much more than just supporting formal R&D projects, more than just in "high …

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Innovating, Gaining Market Share and Fostering Social Inclusion Success Stories in SME Development

Nations, United - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …; …

This document represents a contribution made by the Tripartite Committee comprising the Organization of American States (OAS), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to the fourth Ministerial Meeting of the Pathways to...

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Lessons from NAFTA: For Latin America and the Caribbean

Maloney, William; Lederman, Daniel; Servén, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank

Analyzing the experience of Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 'Lessons from NAFTA' aims to provide guidance to Latin American and Caribbean countries considering free trade agreements with the United States. The authors conclude that the treaty raised external trade...

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Innovation Policy for Development: an Overview

Trajtenberg, Manuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

framework for thinking systematically about innovation policies for development, without venturing into specific, recipe … in some detail the case of innovation policy in Israel, which sheds light both on the promise and the limitations of such …

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Ideas for Development in the Americas (IDEA): Volume 25: May-August, 2011: Export Pioneers in Latin America Title: Ideas para el desarrollo en las Américas (IDEA): Volumen 25: Mayo...

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2011

This edition of IDEA draws from a forthcoming IDB book, Export Pioneers in Latin America, which analyzes a series of case studies of successful new export activities throughout the region to learn how pioneers jumpstart a virtuous process leading to economic transformation. The cases of...

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SME Metasys: A Business Management System for SMEs

Campos, Sérgio Vale Aguiar - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

SME Metasys: A Business Management System for SMEs

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The Productivity of Science: An International Analysis Using Peer-Reviewed Publication Data

Smith, Ellen - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

This report focuses on the determinants of the first type of research output: new knowledge. There are no direct measures of this type of research output, but several proxies have been typically used. The two most important ones that we will apply during the study are (a) publications and (b)...

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Free Software and SMEs, A Perspective of the Future

Campos, Sérgio Vale Aguiar - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

What is Free Software, Why Free Software , Disadvantages of Free Software, What's Missing in Free Software Today , The Metasys Solution

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The One Laptop Per Child Initiative: A Framework for Latin America and the IDB

Navarro, Juan Carlos - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

The One Laptop Per Child initiative is an educational program that aims at deploying millions of rugged, ultra low-cost, individually connected laptop computers to the majority of children in developing nations that today lack access to such devices.

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Bridging Gaps, Building Opportunity: Broadband as a Catalyst of Economic Growth and Social Progress in Latin America and the Caribbean: A View from the Industry

Zeballos, Antonio Gacía; Nakata, Truitt; Vidal, Eloy; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This report is intended to encourage and reinforce the efforts of policymakers and industry stakeholders throughout the region to accelerate broadband deployment. The report has two primary aims. The first is to help identify public policy and regulatory issues that need to be addressed in order...

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