Chidambaran G. Iyer

Associate Professor

Email:cgiyer[at]cds dot ac dot in/ chidambaran[at]cds dot edu

Areas of specialisation: Innovation and Technology; Industry and Trade

Education:

  • Doctor of Philosophy, (2007), Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India.
  • B.Tech in Chemical Engineering, (1994-1998), Dr. BabasahebAmbedkar Technological University, Lonere, Maharashtra, India.

Employment:

Post-PhD experience

  • Academic: 14  year 1 month (as of November 2024)
  • Industry/Non-Academic: 3 years 9 months

Pre-PhD (Chem Engg) experience

  • Formal enterprises: 2 year 8 months
  • Informal enterprises: 1 year

Publications:

Recent journal papers/ Conference presentations

  • Iyer C.G. (2024). Diffusion of Digital Payments in India: A Tale of Two Technologies. Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, DOI: 10.1177/23939575241292940.
  • Iyer C.G. (2024). Mobile manufacturing path for India: Lessons from other Asian countries, Indian Public Policy Review, 5(4): 105-128, https://doi.org/10.55763/ippr.2024.05.04.005
  • Iyer C.G. (2024). Local and global impact of two biomedical products developed in Kerala: Few observations. Conference on Kerala and the World Economy, 18th March 2024, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
  • Iyer, C.G. (2024) Process innovation in low-tech industries in India: An empirical exploration, African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 16(1), 140-151, DOI: 10.1080/20421338.2023.2274706
  • Mani, S. & Iyer,C.G. (2023) Diffusion of digital payments in India, 2011–2012 through 2020–2021: role of its sectoral system of innovation, Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 31(3), 479-502. DOI: 10.1080/19761597.2022.2125883
  • Iyer C.G. (2022). Mobile Phone Manufacturing in India: A Study of Few Characteristics. Economic and Political Weekly, 57(8), 46-53.

Recent working papers, books and magazine articles

  • Sunil Mani and Chidambaran G. Iyer. (2022). Diffusion of digital payments in India, 2011-12 through 2020-21: Role of its sectoral system of innovation. CDS Working paper 505.
  • “India’s Economy and Society – Lateral Explorations”, Eds. Sunil Mani and Chidambaran G. Iyer, Springer, 2021.
  • Iyer C.G. (2021). Mobile Phone Manufacturing in India: A Study of Few Characteristics. CDS Working paper 502.
  • Chidambaran G. Iyer. 2020. ‘Industrialization for Jobs and Growth: A case study of Cellular Mobile phone manufacturers in India’, paper written for the Ford Foundation-IGIDR project ‘Industrialization for Jobs and Growth’.
  • Mani, S. and Chidambaran G. Iyer. 2020. The saga of Indigenous R&D in the high technology industry in India: Case of India’s semi high-speed train-Train 18, 01/May/20, www.TheIndiaForum.in. Available at https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/train-18-and.

Recent newspaper articles

  • Chidambaran G. Iyer, ‘For mobiles, PLI is not enough’, The Hindu BusinessLine, 10 October 2024.
  • Chidambaran G. Iyer, ‘Laptop import curbs would pinch low-techfirms’, The Hindu BusinessLine, 25 September 2023.
  • Chidambaran G. Iyer, ‘Can mobile phone exports be sustained?’, The Hindu BusinessLine, 20 April 2022
  • Chidambaran G. Iyer, ‘Phased manufacturing policy that is hardly smart’, The Hindu, 15 October 2020.

Current Research

Product innovation in bio-medical equipment manufacturing industry; Process innovation in Indian pharmaceutical industry; Genetic technology innovation impact on raw silk production; Technology transfer from laboratories to firms; Entrepreneurship in agro-processing and pharma.

Current Teaching

  • AE 304 – Topics in Applied Microeconomics
  • AE 204 – Economics of Technology and Innovation
  • AE 105 – Econometric Methods