There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an quot;innovation … innovation countries. The usual reaction to this perceived problem is to call for increases in Ramp;D investment rates, usually … innovation shortfall above and beyond the ones that should be expected given the country's specialization and accumulation …

The role of innovation in improving productivity might vary according to a country's relative position in technology … advancement. Frontier countries might benefit more from policies that promote firms' internal innovation (create), while follower … countries would gain more from policies favoring the adoption of existing technologies through innovation outsourcing (buy …

This paper describes and benchmarks innovation activities for a sample of countries in the South Asia region, as well … Asia region can be divided into two groups, in terms of the magnitude and composition of the innovation activities: leaders … (Bangladesh and India) and laggards (Nepal and Pakistan). Leaders present higher rates of innovation activities than laggards and …

as usage by firms, innovation, and productivity using firm-level data for a sample of six Sub-Saharan African countries … suggest that ICT use is an important and robust enabler of product, process, and organization innovation across all six … countries. However, the final impact on productivity depends on the degree of novelty of the innovation introduced by the firm …