Subrahmanya, M.H. Bala <br/><br/>
Research and development in small industry in Karnataka 

 -  2002 
 - p.4010-017. 
 - 28 Sep 
<br/><br/> This paper primarily probes the nature and dimensions of R and D activities carried out in small-scale industries in Karnataka.  Quite a number of small firms are informally engaged in R and D in the region.  External factors like competitive pressure, technological change and customer needs have driven most of these firms to undertake R and D to achieve quality improvement, cost efficiency and competitiveness. Thus `incremental innovations' are the primary feature of R and D in small firms and they spend hardly 1 per cent of their turnover for R and D. - Reproduced. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Karnataka - Industries, small scale<br/>Small scale industry