http://www.epw.in/special-articles/emergence-india-world-leader-computer-and-information-services.html The paper analyses the changing leadership in computer and information services exports in the world. Leadership, measured in terms of export shares, appears to have moved from the United States, United Kingdom and Germany to Ireland and then to India. India has been trying to maintain her leadership through improvements in technological capability and in the process has also become a base for multinationals to set up operations. These multinationals have been increasing their innovative activities in India as revealed through increased patenting, and domestic Indian enterprises have followed, although very slowly, in improving their technological capability. Two conclusions can be drawn. Leadership in CIS is basically a function of the availability of highly trained software engineers. But the sustainability of leadership depends on whether the industry is domestic or foreign owned.
Sunil Mani (m...@cds.edu) teaches at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram. An earlier version of the paper was published in the working paper series of the Centre for Development Studies No 453 titled, "Changing Leadership in Computer and Information Services: Emergence of India as the Current World Leader in Computer and Information Services". Comments received from Keun Lee, Franco Malerba, Sudip Chaudhuri, M Vijayabaskar and M Arun are gratefully acknowledged. K Kavitha helped with the preparation of some of the data tables in the paper. However none of them are to be implicated for any errors that may still remain in the paper. Those are the author's sole responsibility. -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU Clean India Campaign: Let us also chip in! Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
