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India's craft heritage is a reflection of its rich customs and traditions, deeply rooted in centuries of artistic excellence. The handicraft industry plays a significant role in the economy, offering immense potential for improving the balance of payments and earning foreign exchange earnings through exports. Understanding the business environment is crucial to charting a future course of action that supports artisans while promoting Indian advantages globally. In line with the Prime Minister's vision, the industry should be extended by linking traditional crafts with modern technology. Focus must be laid on changing the manufacturing process to ensure durability, meet global standards and foster innovation. This approach can open new markets and opportunities, boost India's soft power abroad, strengthen the sector that not only presences its heritage but also creates employment & sustainable livelihood.

"Focus should be on changing the manufacturing process, ensuring durability and adopting innovations". Identify the Dimension of Business Environment.

Technological Environment

The correct answer is option 4- Technological Environment.

Technological Environment is highlighted in the given lines.

Technological environment includes forces relating to scientific improvements and innovations which provide new ways of producing goods and services and new methods and techniques of operating a business. For example, recent technological, advances in computers and electronics have modified the ways in which companies advertise their products. It is common now to see computerised information kiosks, and World Wide Web multimedia pages highlighting the virtues of products. Similarly, retailers have direct links with suppliers who replenish stocks when needed. Manufacturers have flexible manufacturing systems. Airline companies have Internet and World Wide Web pages where customers can look for flight times, destinations and fares and book their tickets online. In addition, continuing innovations in different scientific and engineering fields such as lasers, robotics, biotechnology, food preservatives, medicine, telecommunication and synthetic fuels have provided numerous opportunities and threats for many different enterprises. Shifts in demand from vaccum tubes to transistors, from steam locomotives to dieseland electric engines, from fountain pens to ballpoint, from propeller airplanes to jets, and from typewriters to computer based word processors, have all been responsible and creating new business.