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Economics of Innovation and Technical Change, Global Value Chains, Innovation Systems, Manufacturing Sector, Development Economics.
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This study investigates the effects of various learning mechanisms on the performance of machine tool manufacturing firms in Ludhiana, exploring potential differences or similarities in these effects across different firm sizes within the micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) framework, in light of the 2020 MSME reclassification by the Indian g...
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This study examines the impact of doing, using and interacting (DUI) and science, technology and innovation (STI) learning mechanisms on firm performance, investigating their influence on financial performance through innovative performance in machine tools and textile manufacturing firms in Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
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Firms engage in innovative activities, either to maintain the status quo or to catch up with the front-runners. Innovation is difficult to comprehend as it may include efforts to introduce something ‘new to the world’ or it may include simply the efforts to introduce something ‘new to the firm’. It is equally difficult to comprehend how the cluster...
This chapter investigates the role of micro-foundations of clusters in industrial cluster development with special reference to an empirical study of Textile Cluster, Ludhiana, and Hi-Tech Metal Cluster, Mohali, in Punjab. Approaching this idea, it deals with the theoretical framework to analyse the empirical evidence of regional micro-foundations...
This chapter tries to explore the changing food availability and issues related to nutrition, undernutrition and hunger and attempts to analyse the diet composition across households– the per capita availability of cereals, milk and milk products and vegetables and pulses. It also examines the nutritional intake across households in select district...
This study examines the process, nature, and drivers of upgrading among Indian information technology (IT) services firms in the global value chain (GVC) by analysing the sector as a whole and examining three cases-Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro. It uses a qualitative research approach and data obtained from secondary sources su...
Accumulation of technology has largely been acknowledged as an important factor determining productivity of the manufacturing firms. However, there are different domestic and foreign means of technology spillover that lead to its accumulation leading industry specific technological complexity. In the past, researchers have examined the process of t...
Technological accumulation is a complex process of correct mix of indigenous and/or imported technology, mainly for the firms belonging to developing economies after opening their economies. To understand these issues, the case of Indian capital goods industry is taken for the years 1994–1995 to 2015–2016. It was found that only 39% of the firms be...
Micro, small and medium scale enterprises (MSME) play an significant role in the economy of India as well as for Punjab. The MSMEs act as important node for backward and forward linkage in the local and global value-chains. Major industries of Punjab include transport equipment (automobile parts, bicycles), textiles (hosiery and readymade garments)...
The aim of the paper is to present a hypothesis of upgrading within global value chains (GVCs). In Stage I, both backward and forward linkages are low at lower level of productivity growth, but it provides ‘window of opportunity’ to increase participation in GVC. Firms enter Stage II with increasingly backward linkages. Only those firms with enough...
The significance of technology-intensive industries for the growth and competitiveness of the manufacturing sector has been well documented. Many studies have attempted to define and classify the industries based on their technology intensity. However, very few attempts have been made in this respect from the vantage point of developing counties. I...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the challenges faced by the Ludhiana’s woolen knitwear industry that got accentuated with the outbreak of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The paper discusses the road map for building capabilities within the industry from the perspective of “system of innovation” approach that would help the ind...
Lakhwinder Singh and Anita Gill (Eds.). 2020. Agriculture Innovation Systems in Asia: Towards Inclusive Rural Development. London, UK and New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, xxiv + 340 pp., ₹1,495. ISBN: 978-0-367-14666-5 (Hardback).
The present article aims to analyse empirically the national innovation system (NIS) of India. Specifically, the objectives were to (a) examine the different innovation-related input and output variables that reflect the structure of NIS over the years, and (b) examine the factors determining NIS. However, it was very difficult to identify the vari...
Geographical fragmentation of production process reoriented the attention of scholars towards the issues concerning international trade. From trade in goods the world is increasingly experiencing trade in tasks. The concerns of the countries are largely shifting towards increasing their share in global value-chains (GVC) for enhancing growth and em...
While innovation is widely acclaimed as an important source of productivity and growth, its relationship with employment remained largely ambiguous. The debate assumes importance as the recent past has witnessed economic growth with falling or stagnant employment growth in a large number of countries. The loss of additional employment resulted in w...
Outward foreign investment from developing countries is not a new phenomenon. But its magnitude has increased in recent years. It was found that around 19% of FDI emanated from developing countries during the period 2011-2013. The share of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) from India also increased from 0.01% during 1980-1982 to 0.48% during...
Driven by technological race, the survival of the firms largely depends upon the technological proximity they possess. Evolutionary theories emphasized that ?technology? is a source of growth and its accumulation is a continuous and path-dependent process that require specific and strategic policies. The hypothesis of the article is, thus that ?bot...
Driven by technological race, the survival of the firms largely depends upon the technological proximity they possess. Evolutionary theories emphasized that ‘technology’ is a source of growth and its accumulation is a continuous and path-dependent process that require specific and strategic policies. The hypothesis of the article is, thus that ‘bot...
Endogenous growth theories postulate a positive impact of ‘technology spillovers’ on productivity that transverse the economic policies, especially of the developing countries towards greater integration. The present paper attempts to examine this relationship by taking the case of Indian manufacturing industries. A panel regression model was frame...
The present paper attempts to explore the pattern of industrial growth in India since 1980. Both the descriptive and panel regression analysis are done for estimating the results. To ascertain the impact of the 1991 economic reforms in determining the structure of industrial growth, comparative analyses of the pre- (1980–81 to 1991–92) and post-ref...
The impact of the 1991 reforms on the Indian manufacturing sector has been a subject of much debate. The reforms were expected to result in a high growth rate coupled with a structural change towards high technology industries. This paper analyses data on 60 three-digit industries, reclassified into four technology-intensive subgroups, for the peri...
David O’Connor and Monica Kjöllerström (eds.), Industrial Development for the 21st Century, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, Zed Books and United Nations, 2008, xi+430pp. ISBN-13: 9781848130265; ISBN: 1848130260
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Question (1)
Covid-19 has disrupted the economies across continents. However, the impact of lock-down due to Covid-19 on different industries would be very different. To revive the economies and industries, unlocking of the economies have been initiated in different countries along with policy announcements for restarting the sectors. Even then, which industries do you think would find it very difficult to regain strength to restart? In other words, which industries could take relatively long time to restart?
