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Why is media so Apathetic?
(2003-10-22)
Media - both public and private - tracks
social consciousness. It often shapes
public opinion but sometimes also
blunts public sensitivity to various
issues that may appear out of sync with
popular mood and perceptions. ...
Agricultural biotechnology in India: ethics, business and politics
(2005-10-25)
This paper deals with the case of Bt cotton in Gujarat, India, as an
illustration of how public policy chickens out when large-scale violation of
ethical and scientific norms takes place with positive business ...
Mobilizing grassroots' technological innovations and traditional knowledge, values and institutions: articulating social and ethical capital
(2003-10-22)
The Honey Bee Network has helped provide a sort of loose platform to converge creative,
but uncoordinated individuals across not only Indian states having varying cultural, linguistic
and social ethos, but also in 75 ...
From sink to source: the honey bee network documents indigenous knowledge and innovations in India
(2006-10-29)
India has a natural wealth of biodiversity, thanks to variations in its climates
and soil conditions and its geographical features, including rain forests, arid lands,
and mountains. Yet many of India’s most biologically ...
Knowledge based empowerment of local bodies: generating entrepreneurial approach to development
(2007-11-02)
The entire developmental paradigm in the post independence history has been based on
the premise that the role of state is to give, what people don’t have. The infrastructure,
the skills, the resources and the framework ...
Linking Vertical and Horizontal Markets for Innovations at Grassroots: Sustainability Imperative
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
The supply chain management is at the core of globalising world. Today the large corporations are able to source materials from all around the world and sell it in the most interior parts of the developing and developed ...
Managing Knowledge, Creating Networks and Triggering Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
In this paper, the author discuss the major knowledge gaps, stress the importance of peer learning and building upon farmers’ own innovations and suggest new initiatives for transforming extension strategies. He have ...
Innovations for Reviving Small-Scale Industries
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
Given the economic distress worldwide, small and medium scale enterprises (MSME) have been hit hard. Large numbers of workers have been laid off because of depressed demand, piled up inventory, pending retrievables, and ...
Rethinking the Priorities for Indian Agricultural Research, Institutions and Policy: Learning from the Grassroots
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
Sometimes having succeeded in a mission, we fail because we tend to persist with the same strategy even when times have changed. The success, thus, becomes the reason for failure. Indian agriculture research has been an ...
If Technology is like Word, Institutions are like Grammar: Institutional Context of Technological Innovations and Knowledge Systems at Grassroots
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
Many developing countries have taken interest in learning from the Honey Bee Network experience for replicating the model. In a UNESCO conference, the author was asked to identify the key steps that national governments ...