ABSTRACT
This book looks at the policy challenges confronting India and other developing countries in creating a robust, sustainable and industrialized economy. It investigates different facets of the nature, structure, growth and impact of innovation in industries, education and within institutions to foster greater productivity and growth.
The volume examines systems adopted to boost innovation and diffusion of technology in different economies while also mapping their success and failures. It offers suggestions for the future for long-term growth, sustainability and inclusiveness amidst dynamic, fast-changing technological frontiers using examples and case studies from India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia, among others. The chapters in the book, written to honour the academic work of Professor Lakhwinder Singh in the field of development economics and innovation economics, highlight the importance of adopting and adapting new technologies and development models to local contexts and small industries.
An important contribution to research on innovation economics, this interdisciplinary book will be of interest to students, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers working in industrial economics, international economics, political economy, innovation economics, institutional economics, industrial organization and international trade.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|92 pages
Inter-Industrial Inter-Linkages and Evolving Economies
chapter Chapter 2|15 pages
But What Came Before That?
part |115 pages
Innovation Systems and Developing Economies
chapter Chapter 6|26 pages
National Innovation Systems and Technological Innovation Systems for Sustained Growth
chapter Chapter 7|30 pages
An Innovation Systems Perspective on Agricultural Technology Diffusion
chapter Chapter 8|28 pages
Measurement and Determinants of Productivity of the Indian Electronics Industry
chapter Chapter 9|29 pages
MNC's Affiliation and Their Exports Performance
part III|65 pages
Institutions, Organizations and Inter-Linkages in Sub-National Innovation Systems
chapter Chapter 12|17 pages
Local Firms and Global Standards on the Ground
chapter Chapter 13|16 pages
Indigenous and Exogenous Reverse Innovations
part IV|86 pages
Innovation, Growth and Sustainability