Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Lal, Kaushalesh
Author-Email: lal@intech.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Title:   New Technologies and Indian SMEs
Abstract: The study identifies and analyses the factors that influenced the adoption
	 of new technologies in SMEs. Information and communication technologies (ICTs)
	 have been used as proxy of new technologies. The findings of the study suggest
	 that industry-specific characteristics such as skill- and export-intensiveness
	 have bearings on the type of ICT adoption. The size of operation measured in
	 terms of sales turnover influenced the adoption of new technologies. The results
	 also suggest that there are marginal differences in the labour productivity and
	 profitability of firms that adopted varying degree of ICTs. In view of the fact
	 that that MFA provisions are no more available to garments sector firms since
	 January 1, 2005, the government needs to embark on providing technological,
	 physical, and communication infrastructure at a globally competitive rate so
	 that SMEs can withstand onslaught posed by large domestic firms and MNCs. 
Keywords: small and medium enterprises, SMEs, technological change, information and communication
	 technologies, ICT, India, competitiveness, technology policy, industrial policy
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 2005
Number: 2005-06
File-URL: https://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/2005-6.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 260 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:200506