Title:
Leader in production but a laggard in consumption? Innovation System and IT Diffusion in India’s manufacturing sector
Leader in production but a laggard in consumption? Innovation System and IT Diffusion in India’s manufacturing sector
| dc.contributor.author | Abraham, Vinoj | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Joseph, K. J. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Centre for Development Studies (Trivandrum, India) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-07-22T13:46:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-07-22T13:46:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-09 | |
| dc.description | Presented at the GLOBELICS 6th International Conference 2008 22-24 September, Mexico City, Mexico. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | It may be paradoxical that a developing country like India, while having only a negligible share in world trade, has been able to record remarkable export performance, mostly at the instance of domestic firms, in a knowledge intensive sector like IT software and services. and that has attracted world attention. While this achievement is highly laudable, the real return from a General Purpose Technology (GPT) like ICT is accrued when it is harnessed for enhancing the productivity and competitiveness of different sectors of the economy and welfare gains for different sections of the society. In the current era of globalization and intense international competition the ability to reap such returns could help ensure the survival of the developing countries and their catch up. The relevant question in case of India is its success with respect to harnessing the new technology for addressing various development problems. While, there are a number of studies on the use of ICT in agriculture and other service sectors including e-governance, the issue of IT diffusion in India’s manufacturing sector has not yet attracted the attention of researchers that it deserves. In this context the present study is an attempt at addressing this issue by making use of a unique dataset on the IT investment in India’s manufacturing sector furnished by the Annual Survey of Industries. Conventional approach towards analyzing the diffusion process involves estimation of diffusion curves which considers diffusion process analogous to the occurrence of an ‘epidemic disease’ within a population (Rogers 1962). Such analyses, cast mostly in the neoclassical framework involves analysis of the time path of the technology adoption process by estimating the sigmoid or S shaped curve. Most of the studies in this tradition (see Karshenhas and Stoneman 1995 for a survey) also indicate that inter-firm diffusion differs across industries and technologies and has highlighted a number of technology specific, adopter-specific and other factors like the environment in which the adopter operates that influence the diffusion process. Apart from the greater focus on demand side factors at the cost of supply side factors influencing diffusion process, it is also assumed that technology remain the same during the diffusion process. More importantly, these traditional analytical models fail to take care of the changes that take place in the environment wherein the diffusion process and those that occur at the original innovation itself (Freeman, 2003). In the evolutionary theory, that forms the theoretical foundation for the innovation systems approach, approach Nelson and Winter (1982) rejects the models that assume full information and classical rationality and instead postulates limited information and bounded rationality. They sustain that both the course and the rhythm of the diffusion process are not easily given, and are intertwined with a combination of elements such as: organizational routines, profitability expected by firms of the sector; consumers’ preferences and existing regulatory devices, as well as the imitation process. This paper follows the innovation system perspective to address the issue at hand. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/40265 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | GLOBELICS 06. ICT development, determinants, patterns and impacts: Diffusion issues | en_US |
| dc.subject | ICT investment | en_US |
| dc.subject | Manufacturing | en_US |
| dc.subject | India | en_US |
| dc.subject | IT software and service sector | en_US |
| dc.subject | IT diffusion | en_US |
| dc.subject | Structural change | en_US |
| dc.subject | Innovation systems | en_US |
| dc.title | Leader in production but a laggard in consumption? Innovation System and IT Diffusion in India’s manufacturing sector | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Proceedings | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | School of Public Policy | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Globelics Conference | |
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