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Systems of innovation can play an important role in linking technological innovation to manufacturing and industrial competitiveness. This paper aims to understand the systems and actors from a perspective of cooperative strategies, taking the case of a key emerging industry – nanotechnology. Longitudinal trends in R&D output worldwide and in select large countries were analysed based on bibliometrics. S-curves were adapted to detect the transitions for select countries. Tech mining was used to identify patterns of cooperation among countries. Academic research emerged to be the strength of Asia and India, but major challenges remain on several other elements of the system of innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), despite being a government organization and having maximum infrastructure facilities, has not been able to achieve commercial heights in telecommunication industry. We attempt to find the root causes behind this and arrive at certain recommendations for BSNL. We have benchmarked BSNL with similar players globally and in the domestic market. We have chosen Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) of Japan for detailed benchmarking which having started out similarly as a government enterprise, continues to this day with the Japanese government as majority stakeholder. NTT is recognized as a leading company in the world telecommunication industry has been able to demonstrate sustained growth in the face of domestic as well as international players like Softbank Telecom, KDDI, EMOBILE and AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, China Mobile. We have studied NTT's journey in detail and have drawn learnings for BSNL. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]