IS TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN STRUCTURAL CHANGE PRESENT IN INDIA? AN ANALYSIS OF INDIAN ORGANISED MANUFACTURING SECTOR
Journal Title: IMPACT : International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature ( IMPACT : IJRHAL ) - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 8
Abstract
Using aggregated data from ASI and CMIE, we analyzed the output, employment and innovation trends (in terms of R&D) of Indian organized manufacturing sector. It is a widespread argument that high-tech industries are key drivers of economic development. Such argument is based on two factors. One, it is assumed that high-tech industries are high growth industries which led to increases in their share in total output. Thus structural change occurs in favour of high-tech sectors. Second, as price competition rises, low-tech industries are also inclined to increasing their technological intensiveness. This also results to structural shift towards high-tech sectors. The present study has found that the Indian manufacturing sector has also registered such ‘high-tech structural change’ but its nature is different than assumed in the earlier literature based on developed countries. Technology-driven structural change is present in Indian manufacturing but it is very slow and small. In Indian manufacturing sector,the share of low and medium low-tech industries remains by a substantial share of total output and employment. Thus there is small structural transformation occurs in past three decades. It is also seen that variation in growth rates of low-tech and high-tech industries are very less. This does not support the premise that only high-tech industries are growth generating industries. In Indian manufacturing, R&D intensity is very less which indicating low investment in innovation activities.
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Harwant Singh, Swati Mehta
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