Industrial Clustering in India: Conceptual and Policy Concerns

By : Keshab Das

Page No: 345-355

Abstract
This paper examines conceptual issues in industrial clustering from a developing economy perspective and provides an alternative framework underscoring key characteristics of clusters and factors determining their dynamism. It analyzes ‘policy’ interventions in cluster development in India and points out several serious inadequacies those must be addressed. In the absence of a national cluster development policy and a limited and truncated understanding of dynamism of clusters dominated by informality, the paper engages with policy-responsive issues as developing a social statistics on clusters, recognizing myriad constraints facing rural craft-based clusters and networking for broad-basing market access by all clustered firms.

Author :
Keshab Das : Professor, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Gota, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/PROD.2020.60.04.1