Innovation and Global Competitiveness: Case of India's Manufacturing Sector

ISBN-13: 9781138300057 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 118 str.

N. S. Siddharthan; K. Narayanan

Opis

India has steadily fostered innovation to improve efficiency of Indian manufacturing and boost global competitiveness in the industrial sector. Recently, industrial firms have been investing overseas based on their technological capabilities. This volume was originally published as a special issue of Innovation and Development.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to innovation and global competitiveness: case of India’s manufacturing sector  2. R&D intensity and exports: a study of Indian pharmaceutical firms  3. Mergers and acquisitions, technological efforts and exports: a study of pharmaceutical sector in India  4. Innovation and competitiveness among the firms in the Indian automobile cluster  5. Influence of outward-foreign direct investment and technological efforts on exports: Indian auto component firms  6. Technological determinants of firm-level technical efficiency in the Indian machinery industry  7. Exporting by Indian small and medium enterprises: role of regional technological knowledge, agglomeration and foreign direct investment

O autorze

N. S. Siddharthan is Honorary Professor at the Madras School of Economics, India. His current research interests are technology and globalisation, international economics, multinational corporations, and industrial organization.

K. Narayanan is Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. His research interests span the areas of industrial economics, international business, socio-economic empowerment through ICT, environmental economics, economic impacts of climate change and development economics.