Open AccessRegional Pattern and Determinants of Knowledge-based Industry: Evidence from Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
Author(s) -
Tareef Husain
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
pragati: journal of indian economy/pragati : journal of indian economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2395-261X
pISSN - 2347-4432
DOI - 10.17492/pragati.v2i1.6450
Subject(s) - negative binomial distribution , pharmaceutical industry , unit (ring theory) , business , empirical evidence , agricultural economics , geography , economics , microbiology and biotechnology , mathematics , statistics , biology , philosophy , mathematics education , epistemology , poisson distribution
The present study examines the regional profile of Indian pharmaceutical industry in terms of number of factories based on various Reports and Unit-level data of Annual Survey of Industries. The evidence reveals that every Indian state reported lower annual average growth rates during the period of 2000-09 than 1991-00, except Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Karnataka. Indian pharmaceutical industry has also witnessed a regional transformation during the period of 2007-10, with the declining share of West India and increasing share of North India after the period of 2001-05. The empirical findings based on negative binomial regression model reveal that a group of regional factors such as, size of industry, availability of skilled labour, number of science and technology institutions and number of patent applications attract higher number of pharmaceutical firms in various states.