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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

Pradosh Nath
Affiliation:
Development Studies New Delhi
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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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India
Science and Technology
, pp. 85 - 115
Publisher: Foundation Books
Print publication year: 2013

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