Using manufacturing data for India, this paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on two types of labor …

The theoretical effects of labour regulations such as employment protection legislation (EPL) on innovation is … technologically advanced innovation. In this paper we find empirical evidence that both effects are at work - multinational … innovation in countries with low EPL. …

We examine the impact of the strictness of employment protection legislation on innovation intensity. To this purpose … to explain the variation of innovation intensity between industries within countries. Our estimates indicate that … stricter employment protection legislation led to significantly lower innovation intensity in industries with higher job …

This study investigates the impact of internal and external research and development (R&D) on the innovation … performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in India and Pakistan. Micro-level data was obtained for 3,492 Indian and … stronger for Indian SMEs. The negative relationship between firm size and innovation output implies that SMEs in both countries …

In this paper, I examined how the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India, two largest transitional economies in … Asia, have engaged in improving their innovation capability in the economic transition. First, I measured and compared … innovation capability of both countries by using not only various input and output indicators of innovation systems but also the …

(CDDP), which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural villages of southeast India. The Irulas specialize … catchers, Sethu developed an innovative new trap. His innovation won the prestigious Global Development Marketplace award from …

's pharmaceutical clusters and India's automobile clusters in terms of the systems concepts of holism, emergence, and open systems. We …-public sector collaboration, support for funding and commercialization, as well as innovation corporate culture, when examining the … institutional pillars supporting the development and growth of industry clusters within the national innovation ecosystems. The …

India imports more from Africa than Africa does from India. A large share of Indian imports from Africa are oil and … minerals. However, the India-Africa relations in food and agriculture are already important but have potentials for expansion …. For complex reasons Africa had no transformation of its agriculture comparable to India's during its erstwhile Green …

the impact of a particular regulation - license requirements for certain firm activities - on the innovation performance … led to an eight percentage points higher innovation rate within two years following the reform. We measure innovation as …