Technological Innovation in Indian SMEs: Need, Status and Policy Imperatives

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  • Bala Subrahmanya Mungila Hillemane Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

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https://doi.org/10.11565/cuocient.v1i2.4

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Technological innovation, SMEs, Policy support, Bangalore, India

Resumen

SMEs, due to their unique characteristics, are found to have inherent capabilities to undertake technological innovations successfully across industries and nations. While there is considerable empirical evidence to throw light on SME innovation contributions in the context of developed countries, there is hardly any evidence to reveal how innovative SMEs are in rapidly industrializing economies like India. This paper reveals the core findings of two empirical “Innovation Projects” implemented in the previous decade in Bangalore, the globally known high-tech city of India. Indian SMEs are largely incremental innovators, prompted by their customers and involved in product and/or process innovations. But majority carried out innovations with internal efforts only whereas the minority which obtained external support, had better technical strength, indulged in more frequent and both product & process innovations. Such SMEs achieved better innovation performance as well as better economic performance. Some of them internationalized themselves in the process. However such achievements are “an oasis” in the vast Indian SME sector. How to promote (i) innovations, (ii) quality of innovations and (iii) patenting culture among the SMEs is a challenge for Indian Policy Makers. The paper concludes with proposing some policy recommendations in this direction.

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Bala Subrahmanya Mungila Hillemane, Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Dr M H Bala Subrahmanya is a Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. His field of specialization is Industrial Economics covering the wide spectrum of industry from start-ups to TNCs, innovation of industries, productivity and performance of industries, etc.

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2012-11-20

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Mungila Hillemane, B. S. (2012). Technological Innovation in Indian SMEs: Need, Status and Policy Imperatives. Current Opinion in Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.11565/cuocient.v1i2.4

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