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Innovation Under Export Orientation

In: India in the Global Software Industry

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  • Ashok Parthasarathi
  • K. J. Joseph

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By enhancing access to information and augmenting the process of information exchange, information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer enormous opportunities for growth, enhanced productivity and improvement in efficiency in all spheres of human activity. Unfortunately, however, the fruits of this ubiquitous technology are very unevenly distributed across different countries. On the one hand, we have a few countries like the US with a high level of IT diffusion (about 400 computers per 1000 people), where IT contributes significantly to GDP.1 At the other extreme are a number of developing countries, where the extent of IT diffusion remains very low.2 The observed ‘digital divide’ is best summarized by the fact that ‘more than half of humanity has never made a phone call’.3

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  • Ashok Parthasarathi & K. J. Joseph, 2004. "Innovation Under Export Orientation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Anthony P. D’Costa & E. Sridharan (ed.), India in the Global Software Industry, chapter 4, pages 83-111, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-4384-2_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403943842_4
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    1. Lema, Rasmus & Quadros, Ruy & Schmitz, Hubert, 2012. "Shifts in Innovation Power to Brazil and India: Insights from the Auto and Software Industries," MPRA Paper 49591, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. D'Costa, Anthony P., 2006. "Exports, university-industry linkages, and innovation challenges in Bangalore, India," Policy Research Working Paper Series 3887, The World Bank.
    3. Thomas Barnes, 2013. "The IT Industry and Economic Development in India: A Critical Study," Journal of South Asian Development, , vol. 8(1), pages 61-83, April.

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