Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART I: AN OVERVIEW OF DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES -- 1 - Divergent Views on Defence Offsets -- PART II: VIEWS FROM THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND ANALYSTS -- 2 - India's Needs and Defence Offsets -- 3 - Offsets: A Financial Perspective -- 4 - Objectives and the Potential of Offsets -- 6 - Chinese Takeaways for Building a High-tech Defence Innovation Base in India -- 7 - Technology in Offsets: A Strategic Tool to Galvanize the Indian Defence Industry -- 8 - The Value Chain in Defence Offsets -- 9 - Knowledge Arbitrage through Defence Offsets -- PART III: VIEWS FROM THE GLOBAL OEMs -- 10 - Offsets: A Global Prime Standpoint -- 11 - FDI in Defence Offsets -- 12 - Essential Elements of a Successful Offset Policy -- 13 - Offset Policy: The Link between the OEM and Local Industry -- 14 - Nurturing Long-term Relationships through Banking and Trading of Offsets -- PART IV - VIEWS FROM THE INDIAN PRIVATE SECTOR -- 15 - An Overview of Indian Defence Manufacturing -- 16 - Dealing with the Government: An SME Perspective -- 17 - Warship Building in India -- 18 - SMEs as Prime Contractors -- 19 - The Market Opportunity -- PART V - CONCLUSION-THE LARGER CONTEXT OF INDIAN MANUFACTURING -- 20 - Building India's Defence Industrial Base -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.
Insights into the policy evolution and its future to meet India's diverse and competing defence and industrializational needs!.