India’s Acquisition of Technological Capability: A Synthesis

Sanjaya Lall

Chapter 8 in Learning to Industrialize, 1987, pp 193-229 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter attempts to synthesize the information of the previous chapters and to evaluate the evidence on India’s TC. There are clear limitations to generalizing from a sample of nineteen enterprises. Nevertheless, there are many common findings between this study and others on this subject. This gives us confidence that the Indian findings are part of a wider phenomenon of technological development in newly industrializing countries. There are also several peculiarities of the Indian sample, engendered by the interactions of a restrictive policy environment, slow growth of the economy and deteriorating infrastructure. These have strongly conditioned the progress of technological learning in India. To the extent that other developing countries have industrialized in a different environment, some of the present features would not be applicable.

Keywords: Capital Good; Technological Capability; Sample Firm; Foreign Affiliate; Engineering Firm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18798-0_8

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