Rosa Mia Arao

Consultant, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department, ADB

Mia works on development policy research using microdata. Prior to joining ADB, she was a policy consultant for the Health Policy and Development Program (HPDP), where she provided technical support for tuberculosis programs in the Philippines. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of the Philippines.

Training and education play key roles in firm-level innovation. Photo: ADB

What role does human capital play in innovation?

A well-trained workforce is more likely to spur innovation at companies. Firms that provide even minimal training to employees are nearly 8 percentage points more likely to introduce a new product and implement a new process.

Sameer Khatiwada, Rosa Mia Arao