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CONNECTING BUSINESS TO IMPROVE MARKET ACCESS AND PROMOTE SPILLOVERS: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM GHANA Target for Growth: Impact Evaluation Workshop Mexico City February 27 th - March 3 rd , 2017 HOW DO SMALL FIRMS ACESS NEW TECHNOLOGY? HOW DO


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CONNECTING BUSINESS TO IMPROVE MARKET ACCESS AND PROMOTE SPILLOVERS:

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM GHANA

Target for Growth: Impact Evaluation Workshop Mexico City February 27th- March 3rd, 2017

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HOW DO SMALL FIRMS ACESS NEW TECHNOLOGY?

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HOW DO SMALL FIRMS ACESS NEW TECHNOLOGY?

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WHAT DRIVES OR INHIBITS TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION BETWEEN SMALL FIRM OWNERS?

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BASELINE COMPETITION  DIFFUSION

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BASELINE COMPETITION ? DIFFUSION

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CREATING A NEW TECHNOLOGY

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RANDOM TRAINING IN AND (LIMITED) DEMAND (WITHOUT REPLACEMENT) FOR NEW TECHNLOGY

Treatment Groups:

  • No Training or Contract Offer
  • Training only
  • Contract offer only
  • Training and contract offer
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Treatment Groups:

  • No Training or Contract Offer
  • Training only
  • Contract offer only
  • Training and contract offer

Design advantages:

  • Exogenous technology seeding
  • Exogenous profitability of adoption
  • Exogenous relevance of demand limitedness
  • RANDOM TRAINING IN AND (LIMITED) DEMAND (WITHOUT

REPLACEMENT) FOR NEW TECHNLOGY

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WHAT DRIVES OR INHIBITS EXOGENOUSLY SEEDED TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION BETWEEN SMALL FIRM OWNERS?

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KNOWN BASELINE COMPETITION  DIFFUSION

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TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION BY TEACHER TREATMENT GROUP

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TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION BY LEARNER TREATMENT GROUP

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CONTRACT OFFER AND TRAINING INVITATION  SHARING

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CONTRACT OFFER AND TRAINING INVITATION  SHARING

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EFFECTS  THROUGH PRE-EXISTING NETWORK

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CONTRACT OFFER  LEARNING

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“TAKE AWAY”

It Takes Two: Willingness to share matters just as much as willingness to adopt. Firms are not farms: The effects of competition/rival demand are important to consider when designing policies to promote spillovers.