A new perspective for industrial competitiveness: Exploring the role of IITs

Abstract

Changing worldwide contexts and discontinuity can create opportunities for catch-up for India. Building on a long and exciting journey of competitiveness research, I give a glimpse of context and elements of a new perspective on industrial competitiveness. For that, trends in competitiveness journey of India and select countries are reviewed. Glimpse of emerging competitiveness perspective that focus more on human factors and cooperation, and seem to give better guidance, is given. While actions are needed by many stakeholders, we focus on opportunities and implications for young professionals who are keen to shape competitiveness across continuum.