The empirical evidence on the association between labour market flexibility and R&D activities of firms is limited only to developed economies. In this research note, we examine the relationship between labour market flexibility and the R&D decisions of firms in India's organised Manufacturing....

Analysing the future path of an uncertain industry is fraught with risk. We decided to do that. Mobile Value Added Services (VAS) is a rising star in the fast growing wireless business. The growth of this new industry has attracted a wide category of entities right from wireless operators to...

In this paper, we investigate expenditure on R&D activities and its determinants in the organised manufacturing sector. We use balanced panel data drawn from the Indian Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) for the years 2015-16 to 2017-18 that has information on firms’ major characteristics and...

The outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China and the lockdown that followed had disrupted the supply of APIs and their intermediates and starting materials to India, leading to a temporary restriction on export of certain medicines from India. The PLI scheme that was announced subsequently aimed at...

Implementing the concept of sustainable development of the food economy requires profound and rapid changes in this area of economic activity. Following the current path may intensify the already existing problem of the declining biological and health quality of food.The aim of the paper is to...