Though conventional international economic wisdom holds China's hardware and India's software industries to be equipotential, little attempt has been made to compare their information industries in an overarching dynamic framework. By using a schema which links intellectual to financial value...

Infrastructure is loosely understood to be the physical and structural features of a country which constitute its skeletal and arterial systems. The citizens of any country are, however, its greatest assets. In that sense, the most important infrastructure should be that which affects the...

In some technology sectors in India, particularly in software services, public policies and private initiative have yielded rapid growth and good private and social returns. But this has not been true for the case of the Internet, more so for broadband. There is strong belief among technologists...