Investment and expenditure on S&T (and on R&D) in India has been rising over the years. Computation of such spending is difficult because agencies ranging from public to private invest or spend, on several items that may not be directly accounted for under the respective heads of either R&D or...

The system of organized business enterprise is amongst the important actors of the national innovation system. Given the wide variations in ownership, size, nature of competition, there would be similar differences in the depth and types of innovative activities. The economic dynamics of this...

Innovation behaviors of listed firms are likely to be different from business enterprises that are not listed, such as privately held family firms. The listing entitles a firm access to supposedly cheaper capital market. Listing also makes it obligatory on the part of companies to divulge...

The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) segment of the Indian economy is vast, with largest number of enterprises, very large numbers employed, highly dynamic in terms of the entry of new entrepreneurs and the exit of a huge number of enterprises annually. Data from the Fourth Census is...