Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Science and Technology (S&T) and Human Resource
- Science and Technology (S&T) and Innovation Support System: Organisational Arrangement for Promotion of Technological Innovation
- Science and Technology (S&T) and Industry
- Science and Technology (S&T) Output and Patents
- Rural Development – Science and Technology (S&T) Strategies and Capacities
- Index
Science and Technology (S&T) and Innovation Support System: Organisational Arrangement for Promotion of Technological Innovation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Science and Technology (S&T) and Human Resource
- Science and Technology (S&T) and Innovation Support System: Organisational Arrangement for Promotion of Technological Innovation
- Science and Technology (S&T) and Industry
- Science and Technology (S&T) Output and Patents
- Rural Development – Science and Technology (S&T) Strategies and Capacities
- Index
Summary
This theme maps out the existing organisational arrangement for promotion of technological innovation in India. For the present purpose, innovation is defined as, ‘application of knowledge in the production system and realisation of the benefit of new application from the market’. By knowledge we mean technological knowledge. As we know, from generation of new knowledge to its application to the production system, it is a long way with difficult terrain of both technological and non-technological nature. Support system essentially means shortening the long way and also making it smother and easier journey for a technology, from research to production or as it is generally said, from lab to land. In between, there are issues related to adequate infrastructure, access to financial resources, availability of skilled manpower, availability of raw materials, facilities for marketing new products or adopting new processes, capabilities for developing tools and equipments specific to new innovations, new management tools etc. As it is evident from this list of various issues related to innovation, each of them would need different institutional arrangements, and at the same time, since innovation is all about bringing various expertises together, different initiatives have to finally get consolidated as a concerted effort to the main agent of innovation, that is, an enterprise or firm.
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- IndiaScience and Technology, pp. 85 - 115Publisher: Foundation BooksPrint publication year: 2013
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