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Grassroots innovation : discourse, policy and practice in the Global South / Hemant Kumar and Gautam Sharma.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kumar, Hemant (Innovation researcher), author.
- Sharma, Gautam (Innovation researcher), author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in innovation, organizations and technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technological innovations--Government policy--India.
- Technological innovations.
- Technological innovations--Social aspects--India.
- Informal sector (Economics)--India.
- Informal sector (Economics).
- India--Economic policy--1947-.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Hemant Kumar is Assistant Professor at the Department of Studies in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, School of Social Sciences, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. He has spent more than a decade in India working on innovations in the informal sector with an emphasis on grassroots innovations. Other areas of interest for him include STS studies, marginalization in STEM, science, technology, and innovation diplomacy, as well as the history and philosophy of science and technology. Gautam Sharma is an early career researcher with a PhD in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Studies from the Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India. He has worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at the DST-Centre for Policy Research at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India. Following this, Gautam joined Lund University, Sweden, within the Centre for Innovation Research (CIRCLE) and the Division of Innovation, Department of Design Sciences, as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. His research focuses on innovation in informal contexts, particularly addressing the challenges and opportunities in the Global South.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Conceptualising innovations : discourse in the formal and informal sector innovations
- Innovations from the below : inverted models of innovation and the Global South
- Grassroots innovation in India : philosophy, approaches and policy
- Ideating grassroots innovation : crafting solutions for the everyday problems
- Implementing grassroots innovation : the pathways of diffusion
- Concluding remarks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed May 3, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kumar, Hemant (Innovation researcher). Grassroots innovation.
- ISBN:
- 9781003341543
- 1003341543
- 9781040044261
- 1040044263
- 9781040044278
- 1040044271
- Publisher Number:
- 40032356390
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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