Dinesh Abrol

The article critically evaluates the attempt by the Modi government to promote the model of zero-budget natural farming (ZBNF) as an alternate path to agrarian development in India. It is well apparent from the analysis of the National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF) guidelines that the advocates of natural farming have chosen to turn a blind eye...

Realising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require transformative changes at micro, meso and macro levels and across diverse geographies. Collaborative, transdisciplinary research has a role to play in documenting, understanding and contributing to such transformations. Previous work has investigated the role of this research in Europe...

The imperatives of environmental sustainability, poverty alleviation and social justice (partially codified in the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs) call for ambitious societal transformations. As such, few aspects of actionable knowledge for sustainability are more crucial than those concerning the processes of transformation. This article of...

Introduction Catching-up requires the Indian pharmaceutical industry to catch up in the creation of knowledge for drug discovery and process innovations (Jiasu, Lin and Sha, 2016). During the post-TRIPS (Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights) era, in January 2000, India's policymakers laid down explicitly for the first time a policy for the pr...

Domestic pharmaceutical firms continue to operate under the influence of the strategy of global integration of the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare. The link between domestic firms and public sector research organisations is the weakest link in the domestic pharmaceutical industry due to misguided policies in competence-building and innovatio...

Domestic pharmaceutical firms continue to operate under the influence of the strategy of global integration of the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare. The link between domestic firms and public sector research organisations is the weakest link in the domestic pharmaceutical industry due to misguided policies in competence-building and innovatio...

The monograph assesses the performance of post-2000s pathways to industrial development for their contribution to pharmaceutical manufacturing. The challenges of innovation system building and planning for industrial and technological upgrading in respect of pharmaceutical manufacturing, R&D and innovation need to be reconsidered in the light of th...

This article illustrates how the present institutional arrangements and the policy regime under perusal have not been able to support the development of an ecosystem for innovation-making for in-vitro diagnostics (IVDs) for resource-poor settings. Policies favouring trade liberalization and foreign direct investment, market deregulation, strong int...

This article presents an overview of the type of changes that are taking place within the public and private health innovation systems, and the current health innovation setting, including delivery of medical care, pharmaceutical products, medical devices, and Indian traditional medicine. The nature of the flaws that exist in the health innovation...

Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks of community groups, activists, and researchers have been innovating grassroots solutions for social justice and environmental sustainability for decades....

Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks of community groups, activists, and researchers have been innovating grassroots solutions for social justice and environmental sustainability for decades....

Government of India announced its first ever National IPR Policy (IPR Policy) in May 2016. This Policy Brief provides an analysis of the IPR Policy of India. First part of the policy brief provides an overall analysis of the IPR Policy. The second part is a critical analysis of the link between the IPR Policy and Innovation in India.

Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Amita Chatterjee (Editors) (2014), Marxism with and Beyond Marx, New Delhi/Oxon, UK: Routledge, ISBN 978-1-138-79567-9, pp. 272, ₹ 850.

This paper analyses how the local system of innovation and production (LIPS) in indigenous medicine (IM) operates in the state of Kerala in India and locates varied spaces of exclusions therein. The local production networks, innovation capabilities and social innovation process are explored within IM sector of Kerala through an analysis of fifty f...

In this paper we examine the outcomes and connections of preferences of the non-formal innovators identified by the Honey Bee Network (HBN) in India. The chosen mode of diffusion of each innovation has been correlated to socio-economic backgrounds, origins of knowledge of the innovators, their motivations, the fields and domains of knowledge applic...

Grassroots innovation movements (GIMs) can be regarded as initiators or advocates of alternative pathways of innovation. Sometimes these movements engage with more established science, technology and innovation (STI) institutions and development agencies in pursuit of their goals. In this paper, we argue that an important aspect to encounters betwe...

In this paper we assess the changes experienced in the pattern of public funding of science and technology (S&T) at the national and state levels since the launch of economic reforms in India. First, it brings out that though more recently an improvement has been experienced in the gross budgetary support for S&T expenditure vis-à-vis other socio-e...

The paper discusses the role of FDI and TNCs in the NSI of BRICS countries

This study was basically undertaken to evaluate the climate change research output in BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) group of countries for the period of 25 years. The reported results assess the characteristics of the climate change research patterns, trends and methods in the research publications. Data based on the period 1985 to...

The article assesses the pathway of neoliberal globalisation for its impact on firm-specific innovation patterns, the ties under formation for the acquisition of resources and assets and the emerging limits to learning for the Indian pharmaceutical multinationals. Evaluation indicates the persistence of sub-optimal conditions at home for product in...

It has been a little more than sixty years since the foundations of India's national system of innovation were laid, and it is time to look back and examine what form it has taken. What are the achievements of the Indian system of innovation? How has it performed in terms of building industrial capabilities and promoting development? Using the 'Nat...

In this article we create an industry-wide metrics of innovation based on the characterization of learning potential of foreign direct invest-ment (FDI), technology acquisition and in-house R&D, analysis of patenting activity, assessment of R&D directions and evaluation of innovation outcomes. Our purpose is to reflect on strategies adopted for lea...

This article offers a brief overview of the programmes in place for the provision of financial support to entrepreneurs and R&D organizations for technology commercialization and dissemination in India. Financial assistance is provided under these programmes to the industrial enterprises and R&D organizations by the Government of India for undertak...

India has over a century old tradition of development and production of vaccines. The Government rightly adopted self-sufficiency in vaccine production and self-reliance in vaccine technology as its policy objectives in 1986. However, in the absence of a full-fledged vaccine policy, there have been concerns related to demand and supply, manufacture...

This article carries out an investigation into the experience of engagement with the idea of national self-reliance in the developing world during the period of last fifty years with a special focus on India's experience. It compares the experiences of implementation of the strategies of import substitution, export promotion and global integration...

In this paper we assess the changes experienced in the pattern of public funding of science and technology (S&T) at the national and state levels since the launch of economic reforms in India. First, it brings out that though more recently an improvement has been experienced in the gross budgetary support for S&T expenditure vis-à-vis other socio-e...

Introduction Policies that facilitate innovation in general and innovative performance in domestic industry in particular are an integral part of the development policies pursued by most countries. If the available evidence is any indication, India has been no exception. Both in terms of the institutional arrangements evolved over the years and of...

This paper seeks to address the problem of expansion of the system of higher and technical education from the perspective of democratising the system and improving the access to higher education for the people as a whole. It analyses how the policymakers are failing to do justice to the dimension of a sustained and meaningful expansion of the syste...

This paper shows the post-TRIPS experience to be contradicting the overstated claim that ''the adverse effect of TRIPS Agreement on prices of patented medicines would be adequately compensated by the benefits of technology transfer and domestic R&D''. It argues that policymakers cannot continue to formulate their strategic interventions with an und...

The People's Technology Initiative (PTI) represents a radical departure from the conventional paradigm to science and technology (S&T) and rural development by providing an alternative to it. The PTI approach emerged out of the broader People's Science Movement in India, itself a backlash against what was viewed as the weak governance of science an...

This paper analyses the post-TRIPs behaviour of domestic and foreign pharmaceutical firms in respect of technology acquisition, knowledge transfer and domestic R&D in India. It evaluates the prospects of development of capabilities by domestic firms in a scenario where they have also chosen to enter the markets for generics in developed countries a...

Practical experience with technology implementation for the upgrading of very small village industries in India suggests that innovation failures are not merely a result of the lack of proper interaction between the users and suppliers of technologies under implementation, but also a result of adoption of the primitive conception of competitiveness...

Several evaluations of R and D in the CSIR laboratories in the 1970s pointed to the gap between technology development and its application in rural areas and the weak interaction of scientists with external experts and users. There was no attempt to match the mechanisms of technology transfer to the technical and user conditions, to understand the...

Approximately 150 participants attended the conference including representatives from different countries from the developing world, and also from the developed world, who are sensitive to issues for developing countries in the area of interest of the conference Participants included people from academia (biotechnology research, science and technol...

This paper analyzes the post-TRIPs behavior of domestic and foreign pharmaceutical firms in India in respect of technology acquisition, knowledge transfer and domestic R&D. It suggests that evidence available on the diffusion of knowledge contradicts the claim of TRIPs advocates that its adverse effect on prices of patented medicines would be adequ...

Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy 2009 This presentation was part of the session : Achieving National and Global Goals National Institute of Science, Technology & Development Studies

Presented at the GLOBELICS 2006 conference in India during 4-7 October 2006. Session III.5 BRICS and Potential for South-South Cooperation

This article examines the socio-technical connections of the inability of Indian nation state to complete the task of agrarian transition. It shows that the technology regime of green revolution is certainly not anymore in position to tackle in a sustainable way the contemporary challenge of food security and absorption of surplus labour in India....