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Foreign and Technical Collaborations
Collect data on foreign technical and financial collaborations for the last ten years and write a detailed note on the annual trends of these collaborations.

Foreign collaborations Into the Indian Market has been on the rise since past few years, especially with the boom in the IT sector. Manufacturing, banking, healthcare and textiles are among the other important sectors where foreign ventures have taken place in the Indian market.
The period 1991-2000 saw total number of collaborations in the decade surpassing the total number of all the collaborations in the 4 decades preceding it.
Indeed, the total number collaborations in the 9 years of post- liberalization
(1992-2000) period is observed to be 17810, while in the 41 years of pre- liberalization
(1951-91), there were only 15105 foreign collaborations.

India is thus banking on expert technological support for goods and services at an accelerated pace than in the preliberation era. The rise in number is substantial in the post liberalization era, 10- fold compared to the decade of 1950s, 5- fold compared to the decades of 1960s and
1970s and 2-fold compared to the decade of 1980s
IN THE 2001—2010 PERIOD, there were only 25000 foreign collaborations
The data thus, indicates that in the post-liberalisation era, the country is entering into foreign collaborations for a variety of reasons rather than for importing technology to build industrial base or to bridge the technology gaps, most important among them being to increase variety for meeting the customers’ choice of products and services, which is a major shift in pattern of collaborations in the post- liberalization period.
In term of level of collaborations in the post liberalization era (1992-2010) by number,
USA tops the list followed by Germany, the Great Britain and Japan. This is followed by Netherlands, Mauritius (!), Italy, France and Switzerland. The next few places have been occupied by the south- east Asian countries,

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