Exploring Linkages between Industrial Innovation and Public Policy: Challenges and Opportunities
Rakesh Basant
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Rakesh Basant
is a Professor of Economics and JSW Chair Professor of Innovation and Public Policy at IIM, Ahmedabad. His current teaching and research interests include firm strategy, innovation, IPR, entrepreneurial business models, public policy, and regulation. Recent research has focused on capability building processes in industrial clusters, FDI in R&D, innovation–internationalization linkages, competition policy, inter-organizational linkages for technology development (especially academia–industry relationships), incubation models in HEIs, emerging entrepreneurial patterns and ecosystem in India, strategic and policy aspects of IPR, linkages between public policy and technological change, economics of strategy, the small-scale sector in India, and policy issues in higher education. E-mail:
