ABSTRACT

This paper examines the technological change in spinning machinery manufacturing in India. This is accomplished by employing the sectoral system of innovation framework that identifies three important building blocks – technological regimes, demand conditions and the lead actor – in the spinning machinery manufacturing. The paper underscores that Lakshmi machine works limited (LMW) – the lead manufacturer of spinning machinery – explains most of innovations occurred in the spinning machinery manufacturing. The favourable demand conditions and the access to foreign knowledge via long-term international collaborations are crucial to the innovation accomplishment by the lead actor. Nevertheless, because of the imports of advanced spinning machinery and the second-hand spinning machinery in particular, the technological success of spinning machinery manufacturing is restricted to the conventional spinning machinery, i.e. ring spinning machinery, not to the advanced spinning machinery (e.g. rotor and air-jet spinning).

摘要

本文考察了印度纺纱机械制造的技术变革。这是通过采用创新框架的部门系统来实现的，该系统确定了纺纱机械制造中的三个重要组成部分——技术体制、需求条件和主要参与者。该论文强调，纺纱机械的主要制造商 Lakshmi machineworks Limited (LMW) 解释了纺纱机械制造中发生的大部分创新。有利的需求条件和通过长期国际合作获得外国知识对主导者的创新成就至关重要。然而，由于先进纺纱机械特别是二手纺纱机械的进口，