Reconciling higher productivity with innovation paradox: mode of learning and innovation in India's manufacturing sector

IF 1.4 Q3 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Innovation and Development Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI:10.1080/2157930X.2021.1988421

K. Joseph, K. Kakarlapudi, T. Arun

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study analyzed the factors behind the innovation paradox in developing countries using the innovation system perspective. Considering the central role of interactive learning in innovation, we analyzed the relative role of Science Technology Inovation (STI) and Doing Using Interacting (DUI) mode of learning in determining TFP and the inter-industry variation therein. The study used the firm-level panel data from India’s manufacturing sector. The results highlight the significance of interactive learning, both STI and DUI, on firm productivity. While STI mode of learning has a greater role in high-technology industries, in the case of low-technology industries DUI is more important. Despite the positive role of STI mode, DUI mode turns out to be the most widely preferred strategy. These findings suggest that innovation policy in developing countries needs to be cognizant of the crucial role of DUI in innovation and make the case for a balanced approach towards promoting STI and DUI mode of learning.

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协调高生产率与创新悖论:印度制造业的学习与创新模式

摘要本文运用创新系统的视角分析了发展中国家创新悖论的成因。考虑到互动学习在创新中的核心作用，我们分析了科技创新(STI)和使用互动学习(DUI)模式在决定全要素生产率及其产业间变化中的相对作用。该研究使用了来自印度制造业的公司层面的面板数据。研究结果强调了互动学习对企业生产力的重要性，无论是STI还是DUI。在高技术产业中，STI学习模式的作用更大，在低技术产业中，DUI学习模式的作用更大。尽管STI模式具有积极作用，但DUI模式是最受欢迎的策略。这些发现表明，发展中国家的创新政策需要认识到DUI在创新中的关键作用，并为促进STI和DUI学习模式的平衡方法提供理由。

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Innovation and Development Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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期刊介绍： conomic development and growth depend as much on social innovations as on technological advances. However, the discourse has often been confined to technological innovations in the industrial sector, with insufficient attention being paid to institutional and organisational change and to the informal sector which in some countries in the South plays a significant role. Innovation and Development is an interdisciplinary journal that adopts a broad approach to the study of innovation, in all sectors of the economy and sections of society, furthering understanding of the multidimensional process of innovation and development. It provides a forum for the discussion of issues pertaining to innovation, development and their interaction, both in the developed and developing world, with the aim of encouraging sustainable and inclusive growth. The journal encourages articles that approach the problem broadly in line with innovation system perspective focusing on the evolutionary and institutional structure of innovation and development. This focus cuts across the disciplines of Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Science and Technology Policy, Geography and Development Practice. In a section entitled Innovation in Practice, the journal includes short reports on innovative experiments with proven development impact with a view to encouraging scholars to undertake systematic inquiries on such experiments. Brief abstracts of degree awarded PhD theses in the broad area of concern for the journal and brief notes which highlight innovative ways of using internet resources and new databases or software are also published.