Institute for Studies in Industrial Development

Institute for Studies in Industrial Development

Former names	Corporate Studies Group (CSG)
Motto in English	Policy Research to Foster India's Industrial Transformation
Type	Registered Society
Chairman	S. K. Misra
Director	Prof. Nagesh Kumar
Location	Vasant Kunj, New Delhi , Delhi , India 28°32′36.9″N77°08′53.2″E / 28.543583°N 77.148111°E / 28.543583; 77.148111
Nickname	ISID
Website	isid.org.in
Indian Council of Social Science Research subsidiary

India Industrial Development Report 2024-25

The Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID) is a public-funded, autonomous institution dedicated to conducting policy research, advocacy, capacity-building, and outreach activities to foster the industrial transformation of India.

Registered on October 7, 1986, under the Indian Societies Registration Act 1860, ISID in 1988, became one of the institutions that are supported by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), (Government of India), through grants-in-aid. Since 2006, the Institute operates from its own well-appointed campus located in the Vasant Kunj Institutional Area in South Delhi.

ISID is recognized as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO) by the Government of India. It is also listed on DARPAN portal of NITI Aayog (India’s Planning Agency) as a recognized think-tank. It is also a member of the Asia-Pacific Research Network on Trade (ARTNet) and the South Asia Network on SDGs (SANS) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). ISID’s Databases and e-resources are accessed by the academic community across the country through the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre of the University Grant Commission (UGC).

ISID: Policy Research to Foster India’s Industrial Transformation

Manufacturing-led transformation has been an important pathway to prosperity globally—employed by developed countries such as the US, Germany, and Japan, as well as newly industrialised countries such as the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, and China.

As India embarks on achieving its aspiration to achieve a developed country status by 2047, the manufacturing sector seems to be an answer to creating decent jobs for its youthful population and fostering inclusive prosperity.

ISID seeks to support India’s manufacturing-led transformation through its policy research, advocacy, capacity-building and outreach activities.

Research Themes & Key Projects

Theme	Activity
Industrial Structure, Policies, Employment, and Statistics	The India Industrial Development Reports (IIDRs) Future of Manufacturing in South Asia: Inputs for the UNIDO’s Industrial Development Report 2025-26 Strategies for Escaping the Middle Income Trap Revamping the Industrial Statistics Role of Public Sector in India in the Changed Global Context Trends in Corporate Performance in the Manufacturing Sector Fostering India’s Industrial Transformation: The India Industrial Development Report (IIDR) 2023 Explaining the Conundrum of Service-led Growth in India: Changing Composition of Demand and Income Distribution Public Sector Enterprises and Industrial Development
Leveraging MSMEs and Start-ups for Industrial Transformation	Envisioning the Role of MSMEs in India’s Industrial Transformation Towards Resilient and Sustained Growth of the MSME Sector in India: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Job Creation: A Study of India’s Start-ups Ecosystem Financial Accessibility, Institutional Environment and Participation of MSMEs in the GVCs Informal Enterprises and MSMEs in Textiles and Clothing Value-chain UK-India Bilateral Trade in Fintech and Fintech-Enabled Services: Emerging Trends and Potential for Growth
Globalization, FDI, Trade and GVC Participation	Deepening India’s Integration with the Japanese and Korean GVCs Leveraging FDI for India’s Industrial Transformation: Magnitudes, Quality, Challenges and Opportunities Liberalisation, International Trade, and Industrial Productivity in Indian Manufacturing Enhancing the Effectiveness of India’s Trade Agreements with South Korea and Japan Strategy for Leveraging ASEAN FTA and Trade Potential with the Middle East Countries for Pharma Sector in India Strengthening GVC Participation and Export Competitiveness of Indian Manufacturing Enhancing Policy Space for Industrialization: Issues for the G-20 Agenda
Technology, Innovation and Industry 4.0	R&D Scenario in Indian Pharma Industry to meet the Global Challenges Emergence of a Leading Global Innovative Firm from India Empowering MSMEs through IPR Awareness and Management Technological Changes, Skill Requirement and Labour Demand in the Construction Sector Determinants of Innovation by Indian Enterprises Industry 4.0, Automation and Employment in India’s Manufacturing Sector Public Policy and Inclusive Innovation in India Macroeconomic Context for Innovation in India
Green Industrialization	Towards a Green Industrial Strategy for India and other Emerging Economies Enhancing the Policy Space for Sustainable Industrialization: Issues for the G-20 Agenda Identifying Enablers for Green Transition of MSMEs in India Sustainable Industrialization and Innovation: Accelerating SDG-9 Achievement in South Asia
Spatial Dimensions of Industrial Development and Industrial Infrastructure	Trends in Inter-Regional Disparities in Indian Manufacturing Exploring the Product Space Map of the Indian Manufacturing Landscape of Regional Manufacturing in India: Reflections from Commodity Flow Analysis Spatial Dynamics of Manufacturing Landscape in India: A District Level Comparative Analysis of Pre- and Post-Reform Contexts Regional Disparities across States in India
Sectoral Studies on Competitiveness of Indian Manufacturing	Rapid Growth of Labour-intensive Sectors in India-Textiles, Leather, Gems and Jewellery and Food Processing Make-in-India: An Assessment of the Impact on Six Manufacturing Sectors Fostering Medical Device Industry of India Import Dependence, Technology Gaps and International Competitiveness of Indian Electrical Equipment Industry Electrical Equipment Sector: Technology Gaps, Technology Transfer, and Import Dependence Enhancing the Global Role of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry Non-Electrical Machinery Industry: Technological Change and Competitiveness in Machine Tools Industry Automobile Industry: Technology, Changing Product Lines and Policy Initiatives Indian Steel Industry: Challenges for Enhancing Value Addition and Competitiveness Chemical Fertilizer Industry: Challenges for Reducing Import Dependence Gems and Jewellery Sector: Strategies for Enhancing Value Addition and International Competitiveness Enhancing International Competitiveness in Textiles, Clothing and Leather Goods Sector

Capacity-Building Activities

ISID-JNU PhD Programme in Economics and Public Policy

As an apex national institute focused on industrialization, ISID has launched a specialized PhD Programme. Started in 2024-25 in partnership with the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) which will provide degree, the programme focuses on industrial development and related public policy for creation of much needed expertise in the country in this area.  The two batches admitted so far, come from different parts of the country.

Capacity-Building Programmes for University Teachers and Researchers

ISID also organizes capacity-building and research methodology programmes focused on industrialization for faculty members and researchers of academic institutions, typically ranging for two-weeks but also shorter duration.

Facilities

ISID campus view

The Campus and Research Facilities

ISID is equipped with a well-stocked library, specialized in documentation and databases on industrialization and development. It maintains its own databases on industrial development which are accessed by other academic institutions through INFLIBNET of UGC. ISID also has state-of-the-art conferencing facilities and a guest house to facilitate residential academic activities.

Library

The Library stocks an extensive collection of books, journals and reports in subjects such as industrial economics, foreign investment, employment and labour, media and corporate sector, including publications of GATT/WTO, Reserve Bank of India, World Bank, UNCTAD, CMIE (EIS), NSSO and CSO. Some other notable collections are:

• Bombay Stock Exchange Official Directory
• Publications of Department of Company Affairs
• Dun & Bradstreet’s Who Owns Whom
• Jane's Major Companies of Europe
• Handbook of Economics Series (59 volumes—view list)
• The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (8 volumes)
• Encyclopaedia of Cities and Towns (27 volumes)
• United Nations Library on Transnational Corporations (20 volumes)

It also stocks reports, policy statements, committee reports, plan documents, statistical sources, government acts, rules and guidelines and a collection of prospectuses of more than 6,000 companies. ISID Library maintains a digital database of CDs, films and online repository as well. It also subscribes to several journals and magazines.

The users of the library have access to JSTOR database, Elsevier Science Direct—Economics, Business and Finance, EconLit Full Text, Wiley-Blackwell Social Science and Humanities, CMIE Prowess, EPWRF On-line Data Series - 13 modules, SANSCO online annual reports and IMF e-library Statistics. It also provides user services such as reference queries, referrals, reprographics and inter-library loan.

ISID offers online referencing assistance ^[1] and in addition to that, has released a reference database on the subject in CD format, under the name, ISID Research Reference CD which contains index to articles, discussion notes, editorials, Union Budget Speeches, Sections of Economic Survey, key statistics on the Indian economy, Global Development Indicators, reports and website addresses of institutions and scientists. ^[2]

Projects

ISID has carried out several important projects for the Government of India. ^[3]

• Ports as Infrastructure, Ports as Cities: The Indian Port System from Colonialism to Globalization
• Regulating FDI in MBRT: Some Key Concerns
• Ports as Infrastructure, Ports as Cities: The Indian Port System from Colonialism to Globalization
• A Multi-dimensional Study of Imperial Order and its Journey towards Neo-liberal Imperialism under Globalisation
• ISID-PHFI Collaborative Research in Public Health (2013-2015)
• Crony Capitalism and Contemporary India
• Survey of Corporate Governance in India
• Internationalization Process of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
• Indian Multinationals in Global Economy
• Changing Pattern of Corporate Ownership and Implications for Monitoring Company Managements

Publications

• Sakthivel Selvaraj; Dinesh Abrol; K.M. Gopakumar (2014). Access to Medicines in India. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development. Archived from the original on 8 November 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
• Professor S.K. Goyal (2014). India's Policy Milieu: Economic Development, Planning and Industry. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development. Archived from the original on 24 January 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
• Satyaki Roy (2013). Small and Medium Enterprises in India: Infirmities and Asymmetries in Industrial Clusters. Routledge, Oxon.
• K.S. Chalapati Rao; Biswajit Dhar (2011). India's FDI Inflows: Trends and Concepts. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development.
• Sunanda Sen; Byasdeb Dasgupta (2009). Unfreedom and Waged Work: Labour in India's Manufacturing Industry. Sage Publication India. ISBN   978-8178299402.
• T.S. Papola (2008). Labour Regulation in Indian Industry (Volume 1–10). Bookwell Publishers.
• S.R. Hashim; K.S. Chalapati Rao; K.V.K. Ranganathan; M.R. Murthy (2008). Indian Industrial Development and Globalisation: Essays in Honour of Professor S.K. Goyal. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development.
• T.P. Bhat; Atulan Guha; Mahua Paul (2008). India and China: Building Complementarities and Competitiveness into WTO Regime. Bookwell Publishers.

• Jaya Prakash Pradhan (2008). Indian Multinationals in the World Economy: Implications for Development. Bookwell Publishers.
• S.R. Hashim; N.S. Siddharthan (2008). High-tech Industries, Employment and Global Competitiveness. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
• Jaya Prakash Pradhan; Partha Pratim Sahu (2008). Transnationalization of Indian Pharmaceutical SMEs. Bookwell Publishers.
• Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (2006). ISID Index Series: Volume One (Revised ed.). Economic and Political Weekly (1966 - 2006).
• T.S. Papola; D.N. Awasti (2004). Enterprise Development in Mountain Areas: Guidelines for Entrepreneurs, Promotional Agencies and Policy Makers. Himalaya Publishing House.
• Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID) and Indian Economic Association Trust for Research & Development (1998). ISID Index Series: Volume Two, Sixteen Economic Journals. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development.

• Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (1998). ISID Index Series: Forty Years of The Indian Journal of Labour Economics Index: 1958-1997. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development & Indian Society of Labour Economics.
• Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (1996). ISID Index Series: Volume One (Economic and Political Weekly 1966-1996). Institute for Studies in Industrial Development & Indian Economic Association Trust for Research & Development.
• Delhi Atlas, 2d Edition. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development. 1996.
• Pitou van Dijck; Rao K.S. Chalapati (1994). India's Trade Policy and the Export Performance of Industry . Sage.
• Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (1994). Economic Liberalization and Indian Agriculture. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development.
• Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (1993). Delhi Atlas: Colony and Area Maps. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development.
• Chandra Sekhar (1992). Political Economy of India. Vikas.
• Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (1989). Patterns in Indian Agricultural Development: A District Level Study. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development.
• S. K. Goyal (1979). Monopoly Capital and Public Policy. Allied Publishers.

ISID also offers full text downloading facility of select research studies on the Internet.

See also

• India portal

• Deindustrialisation
• Division of labour
• Great Divergence
• Idea of Progress
• Newly industrialised country
• Urbanisation

References

1. "Online referencing" . Retrieved 6 July 2014.
2. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (2004). ISID research reference CD. New Delhi: Institute for Studies in Industrial Development. ISBN   9788190037778. OCLC   65471029.
3. "Projects". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2014.

External links

Official website