Technology Import Regulation Reduces Cost

K K Subrahmanian The reports of the periodical surveys of foreign collaboration agreements conducted by the Reserve Bank constitute the only comprehensive source of factual material for studying the impact of technology import The results and analysis of the Fourth Survey in the series have been presented broadly on the same lines as those of the earlier surveys. This facilitates the construction of a continuous data-set on the financial aspects of foreign collaboration in the corporate sector and makes possible an assessment of the impact of the type of policies followed by the government.