An Assessment of the Regional R Effort in India : An Inter-State Analysis of Selected Industrially Advanced States

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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 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 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 intensity in industrial sectors, as well as a high growth of R 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 in most of these states, which is witnessing the declining role of the public sector. The analysis also reveals a pathetically low RD 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
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