This paper deals with the question of why making a catch-up is even more difficult in capital goods industries that are usually led by small or middle-sized companies. It relies upon the sectoral systems of innovation as a theoretical framework for analysis. From the findings, the paper has...

This paper discusses how the evolving nature of innovation has affected the way Intellectual Property Right (IPR) regime has affected economic growth in developing countries. Focusing more on utilization rather than protection of IPs for human society, it argues that the linkages from protection...

This study estimates the magnitude of gender wage differentials for a sample of workers from the Ethiopian manufacturing sector using the traditional Oaxaca-Blinder and an augmented Cotton-Neumark methodologies. In doing so, it separates part of the estimated log of gender wage differential...