Tracking Innovation Ecosystem in India: A Snapshot of Survey Results from 2016-23 (Sustainable Development Goals Series)

The book investigates the impact of recent policies and regulatory changes related to innovation on Indian organizations. The book keeps a sharp focus on tracking innovation-related public policy in India. Out of the three methods of looking into innovation (i.e., R&D expenditure, patents, and innovation survey), it adopts the innovation survey method. An innovation survey that traces innovation over almost a decade is a novel contribution of the book. Additionally, using quantitative and qualitative methods in the study makes it more dynamic and robust. The book helps to identify both the quantitative and qualitative trends and patterns of innovation in India. The book adopts the survey method to trace and identify the impact of changing policies and regulations related to innovation in India for almost a decade (i.e., 2016, 2020, and 2023). The book uniquely covers not only Indian manufacturing and non-manufacturing firms (i.e., micro, small, medium, and large) but also startups, HEIs, and R&D labs in its survey. The book is of interest to policymakers, academics, embassies, state-level government offices, researchers, and students.

Neha Jaiswal is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur. She was associated with the O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat as an Assistant Professor (Jindal Global Law School), Assistant Dean (Office of Data Innovation and Technology) & Research Fellow, Jindal Initiative for Research in Intellectual Property Rights and Competition (JIRICO). She has also worked as an Assistant Professor at Bennett University, Greater Noida. She has done her Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. She has also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at IIM Ahmedabad. Her doctoral thesis is titled “Mergers, Acquisitions and Competition Law: A study of Selected Industries from the Indian Manufacturing Sector.” During her Post-Doc at IIM Ahmedabad, she tried to explore the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the innovative capabilities of Indian pharmaceutical firms. She also worked as a researcher at the Combination Division of the Competition Commission of India, New Delhi. She has published research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and presented her research at various national and international conferences and workshops. Her research interests include Mergers & Acquisitions (Economics of Strategy), Innovation, and Competition Law & Policy. 
Indranath Gupta is Professor at the Jindal Global Law School and Dean in the Office of Data, Innovation and Technology at O.P. Jindal Global University, India. He is the Director of Jindal Initiative on Research in IP and Competition (JIRICO), and a Senior Fellow at the Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences (JIBS). He is currently the Jean-Monnet Chair- Academic Coordinator for the project ‘Multidimensional Approaches to the Understanding of the E. U. Data Protection Framework’. He has been also invited as a Jean Monnet Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence, Jean Monnet Centre for Intellectual Property &Management, Bournemouth University, UK. Prof. Gupta was earlier appointed as the research collaborator by the Università Bocconi,Milan, Italy, for a project funded by the European Commission underthe 7th Framework Programme. He participated in a multi-jurisdictional project on Digital Era Competition: A BRICS View, whose report was published by the BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre. ProfessorGupta holds two LL.M. degrees (taught and research) from the University of Aberdeen, UK, and the University of East Anglia, UK, and a Ph.D. from Brunel University, London. He also taught at the Brunel Law School during this Ph.D., which looked at the transnational influence of the US Supreme Court’s judgement in the Feist case in the framing of the Database Directive in the European Union. Prof. Gupta specialises in Technology Law and aspects of Intellectual Property Law. Over the years, he has offered courses such as Data Protection Law, Information Technology Law, Music and Copyright, and EU Law and Approaches to New Technology. He has contributed in reputed journals such as the European Intellectual Property Review, Journal of World Intellectual Property, International Journal of Law and Information Technology, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Journal of Data Protection and Privacy, Economic and Political Weekly, and European Journal for Law and Technology. He has worked extensively with Springer on several book projects of all kinds, the latest being an in-process Major Reference Work titled ‘Handbook on Originality in Copyright: Cases and Materials’, currently available as a Living Edition on SpringerLink.