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Technology, innovations and economic development: essays in honour of Robert E. Evenson

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles Sage Publication 2015Description: 335 pISBN:
  • 9789351502692
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  • 338 E9T2
Summary: Provides a fresh perspective to the ongoing debate on the core themes of development economics This book, in honour of Robert E. Evenson, brings together diverse, yet interrelated, areas of innovations such as agricultural development, technology and industry while assessing their combined roles in developing an economy. Thematically structured, it covers innovation and economic development; technological progress and agricultural development; and technology transfer, national innovation systems and industrial development. With essays addressing the significant aspects in development economics, it offers a unique contribution in terms of focusing on problems from the perspective of developing economies. Legacy—Robert E. Evenson Lakhwinder Singh, K. J. Joseph and Daniel K N Johnson Technology, Innovations and Economic Development: An Introduction I: INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Leonardo A. Lanzona, Jr Education Reforms, Technological Change and Economic Development Daniel K. N. Johnson and Kristina M Lybecker Eco-innovation: A Literature Review of the Challenges Facing the Development of Green Technologies M. A. Oommen Social Inclusion and Institutional Innovations: Working towards a Policy-theoretical Framework II: TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT Wallace E. Huffman Measuring Public Agricultural Research Capital and Its Impact on State Agricultural Productivity in the United States Sanjaya DeSilva Access to Markets and Farm Efficiency: A Study of Bicol Rice Farms over Two Decades III: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT K. J. Joseph and Vinoj Abraham Global Innovation Networks and Industry–University Interaction: A Study of India’s ICT Sector Binay Kumar Pattnaik Globalization of Industrial R&D in Developing Countries: A Sociological Perspective Lakhwinder Singh and Baldev Singh Shergill Technological Capability, Employment Growth and Industrial Development: A Quantitative Anatomy of Indian Scenario Dinesh Abrol Intellectual Property Protection, Innovation and Medicines: Lessons from the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry Appendix About the Editors and Contributors Index
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Provides a fresh perspective to the ongoing debate on the core themes of development economics

This book, in honour of Robert E. Evenson, brings together diverse, yet interrelated, areas of innovations such as agricultural development, technology and industry while assessing their combined roles in developing an economy. Thematically structured, it covers innovation and economic development; technological progress and agricultural development; and technology transfer, national innovation systems and industrial development.

With essays addressing the significant aspects in development economics, it offers a unique contribution in terms of focusing on problems from the perspective of developing economies.

Legacy—Robert E. Evenson
Lakhwinder Singh, K. J. Joseph and Daniel K N Johnson
Technology, Innovations and Economic Development: An Introduction
I: INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Leonardo A. Lanzona, Jr
Education Reforms, Technological Change and Economic Development
Daniel K. N. Johnson and Kristina M Lybecker
Eco-innovation: A Literature Review of the Challenges Facing the Development of Green Technologies
M. A. Oommen
Social Inclusion and Institutional Innovations: Working towards a Policy-theoretical Framework
II: TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Wallace E. Huffman
Measuring Public Agricultural Research Capital and Its Impact on State Agricultural Productivity in the United States
Sanjaya DeSilva
Access to Markets and Farm Efficiency: A Study of Bicol Rice Farms over Two Decades
III: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
K. J. Joseph and Vinoj Abraham
Global Innovation Networks and Industry–University Interaction: A Study of India’s ICT Sector
Binay Kumar Pattnaik
Globalization of Industrial R&D in Developing Countries: A Sociological Perspective
Lakhwinder Singh and Baldev Singh Shergill
Technological Capability, Employment Growth and Industrial Development: A Quantitative Anatomy of Indian Scenario
Dinesh Abrol
Intellectual Property Protection, Innovation and Medicines: Lessons from the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
Appendix
About the Editors and Contributors
Index

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