Browsing Working Papers by Author "Basant, Rakesh"
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Access to higher education in India: an exploration of its antecedents
Basant, Rakesh; Sen, Gitanjali (2013-11-26)Deficits in participation of marginalized groups in Higher Education (HE) have attracted significant policy and research attention. Recent studies have explored the role of socioreligious affiliation and other factors ... -
Agricultural research and technology transfer by the private sector in India
Pray, Carl E.; Basant, Rakesh (2009-12-12)The demand for new agricultural technology is growing in India. Since 1985 public sector investment in agricultural research in India continues to grow, but the growth rate is slowing down. With liberalization, the private ... -
Alliance capability, governance mechanisms and stakeholder management in complex settings
Basant, Rakesh; Rai, Rajnish (2013-11-26)In today’s business environment, inter-firm alliances of simultaneous cooperation and competition (IASCC) have become very important for enhancement of internal resources as well as market shares of firms. Evidence ... -
Analysing technology strategies: some issues
Basant, Rakesh (2010-07-27)A firm s technology strategy is influenced by the technology regime in which it operates. The regime is broadly defined by a combination of variables capturing industrial structure, nature of technical knowledge and ... -
An Arrested Virtuous Circle? Higher Education and High-Tech Industries in India
Basant, Rakesh; Mukhopadhyay, Partha (2011-05-26)This paper provides a brief but comprehensive overview of linkages between higher education and the high-tech sector and study the major linkages in India. It finds that the links outside of the labour market are weak. ... -
Bangalore Cluster: Evolution, Growth and Challenges
Basant, Rakesh (2009-09-01)The dynamism and persistence of competitiveness among industrial clusters, even in the wake of globalization and liberalization in the 1990s, has led researchers to explore the causes of dynamic efficiencies at the cluster ... -
Building technological capabilities in a liberalising developing economy: firm strategies and public policy
Basant, Rakesh; Chandra, Pankaj (2009-12-14)As a consequence of economic reforms, the Indian manufacturing sector faces a variety of technology related challenges. It not only has to quickly develop world-class manufacturing capabilities, but also gear up to develop ... -
Concentration and Other Determinants of Innovative Efforts in Indian Manufacturing Sector: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis
Basant, Rakesh; Mishra, Pulak (2013-11-23)The relationship between market concentration and innovative efforts by firms has attracted a lot of attention by researchers. However, a consensus is yet to emerge on the conceptual underpinnings and empirical manifestations ... -
Conceptualizing strategies for technology development: a case study of an Indian licensee
Basant, Rakesh; Chandra, Pankaj (2010-03-31)The ensuing economic liberalization in the country has been a rapid increase in licensing and joint venture arrangements involving Indian firms. For long term growth, the domestic firms will have to develop mechanisms and ... -
Contrasting models of incubation for enterprise creation: Exploring lessons for efficacy and sustainability from higher education institutions in india and the united kingdom
Basant, Rakesh; Cooper, Sarah (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-02-13)Encouraging the establishment and growth of technology-based ventures continues to be the focus of attention from policy-makers globally, linked to enhanced levels of innovation, economic activity and wealth/employment ... -
Corporate response to economic reforms in India
Basant, Rakesh (2009-12-12)Recent economic liberalization in India has significantly changed the policy environment and has forced the domestic firms to review their strategies. As the situation is still evolving, the paper essentially explores ... -
Degree of openness and project performance: a multi-country empirical assessment of information technology (IT) innovation projects
Krishnan, Sudeep K.; Jain, Rekha; Basant, Rakesh (2013-11-26)Open innovation is a paradigm that is based on the concept of availability of abundant knowledge outside the boundaries of organizations. This study identified the influence of degree of openness, strength of appropriability ... -
DETERMINANTS OF ENTRY IN THE INDIAN MANUFACTURING SECTOR
Basant, Rakesh; Saha, Subhendra Nath (2009-09-04)Since 1991, the Indian economy has experienced major structural and policy changes. These changes were expected to reduce barriers to entry and increase competition. While anecdotal evidence seems to support the contention ... -
Education and Employment among Muslims in India: An Analysis of Patterns and Trends
Basant, Rakesh (2013-11-22)After the submission of the Sachar Committee Report, several studies have undertaken data-based analysis of the socioeconomic and educational conditions of Muslims in India. Many researchers, policy makers and, in ... -
Empirical Assessment of Coherence in Information Technology firms
Karthik, D.; Basant, Rakesh (2009-09-04)Coherence is the ability to discover new – potentially profitable – combinations of various types of knowledge assets where complementarity is the basis for relevant combinations. Assets are considered complementary if ... -
Empirical assessment of coherence in information technology firms
Karthik, D.; Basant, Rakesh (2009-12-14)Coherence is the ability to discover new potentially profitable combinations of various types of knowledge assets where complementarity is the basis for relevant combinations. Assets are considered complementary if ... -
Exploring linkages between innovation and public policy - Challenges and opportunities
Basant, Rakesh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-10)Significant research has gone into the analysis of the complex linkages between public policy and innovation. While this research has generated a lot of interesting insights, it has also identified several gaps in our ... -
Foreign R&D Centres in India: An Analysis of their Size, Structure and Implications
Basant, Rakesh; Mani, Sunil (2013-11-20)The study measures the contribution of MNCs to the generation of innovations from India. The focus is on innovations that are carried out in foreign R&D Centres. After having mapped out the size of this sector, the study ... -
How has the Indian Corporate Sector Responded to Two Decades of Economic Reforms in India? An Exploration of Patterns and Trends
Basant, Rakesh; Mishra, Pulak (2013-11-20)In the context of various policy initiatives made during the last two decades to reform the Indian economy in general and corporate sector in particular, the present paper attempts to assess how the firms have responded ... -
ICT adoption and organizational change in public and private enterprises
Basant, Rakesh; Sharma, Shruti (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)In this paper we explore whether there are differences in IT adoption, as well associated organizational change between private and state owned enterprises. We use two datasets from India to conduct this analysis- primary ...