OverviewA WORLD BANK REPORT2023Public Disclosure AuthorizedPublic Disclosure AuthorizedPublic Disclosure AuthorizedPublic Disclosure AuthorizedThis report was led by Leonardo Iacovone and jointly authored with Matias Belacin, Xavier Cirera, and Santiago Reyes Ortega. Chapter 1 is based on an early note by Giorgi Mukhilishvili. The report was prepared under the supervision of Ilias Skamnelos (Practice Manager) and the overall guidance of Lalita Moorty (Regional Director) and Sebastian Molineus (Country Director). The authors are grateful to the companies that agreed to participate in the case studies, the counterparts from the Government of Georgia with whom the preliminary findings of this report were shared and discussed, and in particular to GEOSTAT for an extremely effective and productive collaboration in data collection for the Technology Adoption Survey and their willingness to share anonymized firm-level data, which permitted the authors to perform most of the analysis presented in this report. Rights and PermissionsThe material in this work is subject to copyright. Because The World Bank Group encourages dissemination of its knowledge, this work may be reproduced, in whole or in part, for noncommercial purposes as long as full attribution to this work is given and all further permissions that may be required for such use (as noted herein) are acquired. The World Bank Group does not warrant that the content contained in this work will not infringe on the rights of third parties, and accepts no responsibility or liability in this regard. All queries on rights and licenses should be addressed to World Bank Publications, The World Bank Group, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA; e-mail: pubright...
