India is one among the few developing countries that have sought to establish an aerospace industry. The industry has two components, namely aeronautical and astronautic. The sectoral system of innovation of this industry which is actually located as a cluster in the south Indian city of...

The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a “medical anti-commons” has been predicted due to a proliferation of patents on upstream technologies, evidence to test these concerns is only now emerging. However, most industrial surveys...

The paper examines the nature of the changes occurring in industrial organisation in the 1990s and the experience of developing countries (LDCs) in adopting the emerging form of organisation or 'mass customisation'. These changes include a drive towards product heterogeneity and innovation, and...

The paper examines profuse literature indicating the potential advantages of recent microelectronics-based industrial automation for developing countries in the light of present trends for the diffusion of industrial automation and their impact on industrial organisation in the mechanical...

The paper investigates the impact of the adoption of e-business technologies on workforce displacement. A case study approach has been applied to examine both direct and indirect employment associated with the adoption and production of new technologies. The study covers a wide spectrum of large...

This paper, based on new field data, examines the ways in which small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in selected developing countries learn to use and augment their core capabilities with new technologies. This paper presents three findings. First, there is clear evidence of increasing complexity...