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India’s Technological Capacity: Effects of Trade, Industrial, Science and Technology Policies

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  • Sanjaya Lall

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In some recent research I have conducted on exports of technology by developing countries, I have argued that India’s performance suggests that it has the broadest and best-developed technological capabilities in the Third World.2 This presents a paradox: India combines an impressive performance in exporting its technology with a poor one in terms of industrial growth, the expansion of manufactured exports, the absorption of industrial labour, and the introduction of genuinely innovative products in domestic or foreign markets. Could it be that the same set of policies which have held back growth in general have simultaneously prompted the development and export of indigenous technology? Are the two completely unrelated? Or is there a mixture — have some of the restrictive policies promoted technological growth while others have prevented the exploitation of the resulting capabilities in terms of industrial and export growth?

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  • Sanjaya Lall, 1984. "India’s Technological Capacity: Effects of Trade, Industrial, Science and Technology Policies," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Martin Fransman & Kenneth King (ed.), Technological Capability in the Third World, pages 225-243, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-17487-4_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17487-4_12
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    1. Rajat Acharyya & Prabal Roy Chowdhury, 2006. "Innovation incentives in an intergrated marketed with vertical product differentiation," Discussion Papers 06-02, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.
    2. Acharyya, Rajat & Jones, Ronald W., 2001. "Export quality and income distribution in a small dependent economy," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 10(4), pages 337-351, December.
    3. Acharyya, Rajat & Banerjee, Swapnendu, 2012. "On tariff and quality innovation in a market with discrete preferences," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 29(3), pages 917-925.
    4. Rajat Acharyya, 2005. "Consumer Targeting Under Quality Competition In A Liberalized Vertically Differentiated Market," Journal of Economic Development, Chung-Ang Unviersity, Department of Economics, vol. 30(1), pages 129-150, June.
    5. Vinish Kathuria, 2009. "Technical Change, International Competitiveness, and Role of the State: Indian Machine Tool Industry's Experience," Working Papers id:2157, eSocialSciences.
    6. Homi Katrak, 2002. "Economic liberalization and new product enterprises in the newly industrializing countries: an analysis of the Indian experience," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 14(2), pages 195-206.
    7. Amit Ray & Saradindu Bhaduri, 2001. "R&D and Technological Learning in Indian Industry: Econometric Estimation of the Research Production Function," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(2), pages 155-171.
    8. Amit Shovon Ray, 2008. "Emerging through Technological Capability - An Overview of India’s Technological Trajectory," Development Economics Working Papers 22238, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research.
    9. Bandyopadhyay, Swapnendu & Acharyya, Rajat, 2006. "Does input sector liberalization promote quality innovation and exports?," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 15(4), pages 443-462.
    10. Amit Shovon Ray, 2008. "Emerging through Technological Capability: An Overview of India’s Technological Trajectory," Working Papers id:1816, eSocialSciences.
    11. Itzhak Goldberg & Lee Branstetter & John Gabriel Goddard & Smita Kuriakose, 2008. "Globalization and Ttechnology Absorption in Europe and Central Asia : The Role of Trade, FDI, and Cross-Border Knowledge Flows," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 6445.

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