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Establishing National Innovation Foundation: How does a tail wag the dog?
(2009-07-25)
A simple search on the web about unaided technological innovations by common people from the unorganized sector will reveal the paucity of information worldwide. It is this gap, which Honey Bee Network started at IIMA ...
Crop, Conservation, Creativity and Collaboration
(2009-07-25)
Participatory plant breeding has attracted lot of attention in the recent past. However, most of the time, farmers’ involvement has been restricted to selections from the material generated by plant breeders as a part of ...
Risk, Ambiguity – Gains, Losses
(2009-07-25)
We use a multiple price list (MPL) method to elicit attitudes to risky and ambiguous prospects. In particular we wish to investigate if there are differences in agent behaviour under uncertainty over gain amounts vis a vis ...
Term Structure Estimation In Illiquid Government Bond Markets: An Empirical Analysis For India
(2009-03-11)
With increasing liquidity of the Indian sovereign debt market from 1997, it has become possible to estimate the term structure in India. However, several frictions that cause individual securities to be priced differently ...
Network Economies in Indian Telecom
(2009-08-03)
Natural monopolies arising out of sub-additivity costs on the supply side are well known. Recently the consumer side has been emphasized especially in industries like telecom and IT/software industries. As per Shapiro and ...
Agriculture: A Perspective from History, the Metrics of Comparative Advantage, and Limitations of the Market to Understand the Role of State in a Globalising World
(2009-08-13)
Multilateral agencies and economists with much influence have been urging laissez-faire in agriculture. While success with the rich countries has been minimal despite the commitments under the WTO, many poor countries with ...
Networks of Small Producers for Technological Innovation: Some Models
(2009-07-25)
Small producers face a variety of challenges - some related to markets and others related to capabilities. Inability to develop technological capabilities has often restricted small firms from growing large. In this paper, ...
Commerciality’ in International Commercial Arbitration
(2009-03-09)
Enterprises, the world over, now conduct business on a dramatically more international scale. The growth of world economies is directly connected with millions of commercial contracts, which are becoming more international ...
A Review of the Tabu Search Literature on Traveling Salesman Problems
(2009-07-28)
he Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is one of the most widely studied problems in
ombinatorial optimization. It has long been known to be NP-hard and hence research on
developing algorithms for the TSP has focused on ...
Grassroots to Global: Online Incubation of Grassroots Innovations based enterprises
(2009-07-25)
The dominant model of globalisation creates considerable anxiety and stress in the minds of small-scale entrepreneurs and civil society organisations. In this model, choices for small entrepreneurs are very limited. The ...