Pranav Desai

Jawaharlal Nehru University | JNU · Centre for Studies in Science Policy

in global geopolitical conflicts shape the world's socio-economic and political landscape. From territorial disputes to power struggles, understanding these dynamics is crucial for comprehending today's international relations and forecasting future global stability. This article delves into key conflicts and their implications.

India's soft power has been on the rise in recent years, driven by a growing cultural footprint, economic clout, and diplomatic outreach. Bollywood, Indian cuisine, and yoga are now popular around the world, while Indian companies are increasingly investing abroad. India is also playing a more active role in global institutions such as the G20 and...

The sudden collapse of the familiar world order and the unfolding of polarising and global forces, the architecture of the Government of India of foreign affairs is facing greater challenges. Here we take a look at how we are conducting foreign affairs in a determinant manner.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world witnessed the acceleration of globalisation. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought this process of globalisation to a screeching halt, altering geopolitics and the interrelationship between the state, markets, and society. The world faces greater pressures on the healthcare system and challenges o...

Biopharmaceuticals have the potential to contribute immensely towards improving the health and quality of life of people. However, there is a gap in the availability of medical services in India and inequality in disseminating health benefits to the poor. Several issues are associated with biopharmaceuticals, such as increasing cost of treatments,...

Ethnobotany genomics is gaining popularity, and there is a renewed interest in traditional medicine around the world. Ethnobotany genomics is proving useful not only for the conservation of biodiversity and agricultural productivity but also for drug discovery. In terms of traditional medicine and biodiversity, India is one of the world’s richest c...

The present study was conducted to investigate new emerging directions and identify literature by depicting and analysing the historical origins, contemporary research fields and intellectual authors in the domain of Innovation Systems. Using the ISI WoS database, we deployed a systematic review of the literature using scientometric approaches for...

COVID-19 has rapidly spread around the world, posing enormous health, economic, environmental, and social challenges to the entire human population and even to the point of disrupting the global economy. This article describes the impact of COV- ID-19 on society and the global environment.

The COVID-19 related lockdowns have brought the planet to a standstill. It has severelyshrunk the global economy in the year 2020, including India. The blue economy and especiallythe small-scale fisheries sector in India have dwindled due to disruptions in the fish catch, market,and supply chain. This research presents the applicability of satellit...

The COVID-19 related lockdowns have brought the planet to a standstill. It has severely shrunk the global economy in the year 2020, including India. The blue economy and especially the small-scale fisheries sector in India have dwindled due to disruptions in the fish catch, market, and supply chain. This research presents the applicability of satel...

This paper examines the shift toward centralized waste-to-energy (WTE) as a singular solution to Delhi's solid waste crisis and describes a transdisciplinary research process that sought to understand how and why this dominant waste management pathway emerged. It also sought to engage with and facilitate debate on the potential for alternative wast...

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...

: In the era of digital world, technological convergence through ICT has been receiving a significant attention. The ubiquitous connectivity provided through convergence has the potential to transform the society and establish an ecosystem to serve new dimensions to the economy of the country. Thereby, this study has attempted to identify the pheno...

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A discussion on India, anywhere, often starts with the acknowledgment that it is the largest democracy (in terms of population) in the world with a rich diversity of cultures, knowledge, and values. A critical extension of that disrcussion would also entail that India is a country of contrasts with huge inerquality (Narsimha 2008). On one side, man...

Hundreds of clinics in India offer unproven stem cell therapies despite having remarkably stringent guidelines and regulations for fraudulent advertisements and clinical practice. We discuss the challenges with current regulations, how a recently proposed amendment may further legitimize unproven stem cell therapies, and discuss paths forward in a...

Inequity in health research is understood as a major impediment to development.The paper uses empirical analysis performed on a unique data set of publications and clinical trials related to cancer research to explore the public policy dimensions of health care research in India. It traces disparities that result from predilections in science techn...

With the increasing waste production in urban areas, multiple technological solutions, models of waste governance and alternative practices of solid waste management have started acquiring momentum in Indian cities. Of the numerous solutions to this problem, waste to energy technology is emerging as an essential solution in India. Hence, this paper...

Background: Diabetes emerges out to be a major epidemic in recent years that engulfs both developed and developing countries across the globe. India, a country witnessing rapid socioeconomic progress and urbanization carries a considerable share of the global diabetes burden. There has been an incongruity between disease burden and the technical c...

Scholars from the diverse academic themes have reflected and discussed the connection between the innovation and the geographical settings. In developing countries, like India, high technology cluster development is not a new phenomenon, and has been a significant tool for policy implications. However, such clusters have emerged in certain regions,...

The Indian Biopharmaceutical landscape interests scholars from innovation studies, economic geography and policy learning to understand various regional dimensions that fuel knowledge production in relation to emerging technologies. Globalization has a strong influence on such high technology clusters, wherein ‘local’ play a significant role. With...

This briefing draws on recent research to show how people benefit from ecoystems in and around cities, and how these benefits can be integrated into urban planning and policy.

The potential of stem cell to change the face of medical treatment has brought it to the forefront of medical science in recent years. The present study analyzes the stem cell research output of India during 1990-2014 collected from the Scopus database. Some of the parameters used for analysis are publication output, publication share, growth rate,...

Background: Demographic and economic changes in the past two decades and the resultant increase in noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and mental and neurological conditions has burdened the developed, developing, and underdeveloped countries alike. Cancer deaths that occurred in developing countries alone contributed...

Biopharmaceuticals have raised many hopes of improving the quality of life. However, the increasing cost of treatment has raised many questions regarding its access in the context of multiple inequalities. The arrival of the patent cliff in this sector has given rise to biosimilars. This development has not only opened up an enormous global market...

Africa’s innovation dilemma derives from the fact that the continent remains one of the richest repositories of renewable and non-renewable resources with wide biodiversity and a large part of this continent still remains technologically backward and poor. The continent exhibits wide diversity in S&T capabilities, human development and economic dis...

The present study is an attempt to analyze the world publication of ethnobotany genomics by using "DNA barcoding" and "DNA barcoding plants" as keywords. Some of the parameters used for the analysis include the publication output, countries′ performance, the institutions involved, subject areas, authors, and journals distribution. The Scopus Intern...

Purpose – Technology foresight or technology futures analysis is increasingly being recognised as a tool for planning sustainable development. Similarly, as argued by many, biotechnology could be harnessed for sustainable development. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to map out foresight activities in the Indian biotechnology innovation system....

To conduct a foresight exercise with an aim of self-reliance at 60% in electrical power equipment for India by identifying strategies in the medium term (by year 2022) and long term future (by year 2032). • To identify the barriers standing against the objectives of selfreliance and explore the drivers to overcome those barriers both in medium and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to map out the Indian nanotechnology innovation system. An attempt is made to identify the dominant actors, collaborative pattern and analyse the role of and interactions between the actors and institutions. Design/methodology/approach – A combination of frameworks such as national and international system of...

This paper attempts to analyse India’s changing structure of technology-intensive exports using a systemic perspective. In doing so, it explores the increasing significance of linkages between National and International System of Innovation. Technology-intensive exports from the developing economies have witnessed rapid growth and an increase in th...

The pesentation describes the changing biotechnology innovation system in India and the challenges posed. A special focus is provided on stem cell research.

Solar electricity is a clean energy solution for Sustainable Energy. Solar photovoltaic program in India began in early 1980s. India announced the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission for accelerating solar electricity growth in 2010. A target of achieving 20,000 MW of solar electricity by 2022 has been set. This paper presents current solar ene...

Advances in biomedical sciences have increasingly led to human interventions in the domain of assisted reproductions. Simultaneously, India has emerged as a prominent global market for both domestic and international clients in assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) due to substantially lower cost than EU and USA. Consequently, a need was felt f...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse India's international science and technology (S&T) cooperation efforts, with a special focus on the developing countries. It intends to identify the actors, magnitude, nature, routes and areas of international cooperation. Further, it probes whether the “globalisation process” is likely to change th...

The present article explores the status of technology foresight activities in Indian biotechnology firms in the context and framework of sectoral innovation. It deals with the current uses and practices of technology foresight conducted by biotechnology firms with a particular view to the possible contributions to innovation that foresight activiti...

The present paper is an attempt to explore the emerging stem cell innovation system in India. It is contended that the social capital in terms of linkages of various sorts can no longer be ignored to strengthen the innovation system and that the coevolution of technology and institutions is yet to emerge. It seems that given the nature of complex t...

Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy 2009 This presentation was part of the session : Roundtables on Globalization of Science and Innovation the Indian Council of Social Science Research and Maison des Sciences de lâ Homme

The present paper is an attempt to focus on the international dimensions of innovation policies that are likely to affect technological change and development process. Recently, a new dimension of innovation has been added by the offshoring of R&D services in India. This phenomenon was mainly confined to the triad countries but recently a number of...

It is contended that the evidence-based policy making cannot be viewed but from the context of the global knowledge divide in which science and global knowledge networks are situated. The changing concepts of environment, S&T innovation policies and foresight have brought into focus the interplay between various factors like socioeconomic, politica...

The concept of environment has also undergone transformation and the appreciation of the cultural context and different knowledge system enhanced. Given the nature of environmental issues, and complex sciences involved, there is greater likelihood of risk, uncertainty and scientific controversies involved. An attempt has been made in this paper to...

Recently, a new dimension has been added by the offshoring of R&D services in India. The present paper will try to analyse the role of new actors, learning process and its impact on India’s innovation system.

The international recognition of traditional knowledge (TK) is of recent origin as is the gradual realization that it can no longer be neglected in the development context. Moreover, this issue has become contentious with the emergence of biotechnology, conflicts between the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement and the Co...

Gender asymmetry, tilted in favour of men or women, has persisted in all human civilisations alike. This phenomenon could be explained more or less in terms of the changing environment shaped by technological advances. The sickle-based agriculture mainly operated by women had given rise to matrilinear societies as the woman played a dominant role i...

The present paper is an attempt to analyse the challenges posed by agro-biotechnologies, intellectual property rights, globalisation and its role in rural transformation in India. Along with the rapid changes in the international system, the last two decades of the twentieth century have witnessed the emergence of new technologies. The new economic...

The present paper is an attempt to analyze the experiences in implementing information society technology (IST) policies and strategies around the world and seeks to identify whether there are any lessons from some of the Asian countries that might be relevant for evolving a perspective for changing Europe by 2020. An optimistic scenario of ‘inform...

The present paper is an attempt to analyse the role of academic institutions in meeting the challenges posed by agro-biotechnologies, IPRs, globalisation and its implications for achieving the millennium development goals. The problems of implementing the MDGs are certainly intertwined and the entire nexus requires attention. However, serious doubt...

The World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is expected to assume a special significance in the developing countries. Given its complex nature, it is also increasingly being involved in various controversies. The TRIPS agreement has changed the international governance of Intellectual Pr...

A rapid technological change has been forecast in the leather footwear sector with the introduction of liberalized policies in India. Some of the international experiences have demonstrated that the productivity gains are not distributed invariantly even for similar technologies. Moreover, it is observed that the socioeconomic impact of modern tech...

This paper is an attempt to study the organisational development of international co-operation in Indian agricultural research. The organisational set up of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) is described and the structural response to international co-operation is analysed. The primary aim of the paper is to show the importance of...

The present paper is an attempt to focus on the international dimensions of innovation policies that are likely to influence not only international investment decisions but also technological change and development process. Recently, a new dimension of innovation has been added by the offshoring of R&D services in India. This phenomenon was mainly...