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Innovation Objectives, Strategies and Firm Performance: A Study of Emerging Market Firms Read chapter Read first chapter

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Innovations in an Emerging Software Cluster

Author : M. Arun

Published in: Driving the Economy through Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Publisher: Springer India

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Abstract

Low wage rate in India, rather than technological innovation, is widely believed to have caused the phenomenal growth of the Indian software industry. Low total software exports from India is taken as an indication of lack of innovation in the industry. This chapter argues, based on the case study of the software firms in Trivandrum, that the software industry in India is innovative and that the nature of innovation depends on the characteristics of its knowledge base.

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Footnotes
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Software products are those pieces of software which provide generic functionality so that it can be useful to more than one user. Software products are made once and sold many times.
 
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Metadata
Title
Innovations in an Emerging Software Cluster
Author
M. Arun
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer India
Book
Driving the Economy through Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Print ISBN: 978-81-322-0745-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-81-322-0746-7

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0746-7_41