Part B : Technological Change and Change of Economic Sectors
An Assessment of the Regional R&D Effort in India : An Inter-State Analysis of Selected Industrially Advanced States
2007 年 37 巻 2 号 p. 415-425
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2007 年 37 巻 2 号 p. 415-425
Globalization has opened a wide range of opportunities for production sectors in Third World countries like India, to become competitive and to exploit ways of enhanced growth. However, a basic requirement for such development is that these sectors increase their technological standards. The present work is a case study of the R&D effort of seven selected industrially advanced states of India, viz. Andhra Pradesh; Maharashtra; Uttar Pradesh; West Bengal; Gujarat; Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, during the period of the 1990s. The analysis bears out a systematically low R&D allocation made in the state sector over the years, which obviously constrains industrial and technological development. Further, states like Maharashtra, Karnataka and Gujarat have shown a relatively high R&D intensity in industrial sectors, as well as a high growth of R&D expenditure, which corroborates the fact that these states are experiencing a strong industrial growth, steered by a technological surge. The analysis further shows a spontaneous decline in public industrial R&D in most of these states, which is witnessing the declining role of the public sector. The analysis also reveals a pathetically low R&qmp;D effort by small-scale industries in these states, which nevertheless ought to be augmented for exacerbating the competitiveness of these industries.
JEL Classification: O38, R11
