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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 ...
Narmada project: An opportunity for redefining social relations
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-09-01)
There has been a heated controversy around the Narmada Project. Environmentalists have rightly argued for an open and informed debate. The government and the academics supporting it have felt that all the information has ...
Innovation, Investment, Enterprise: Generating Sustainable Livelihood at Grassroots through Honey Bee Philosophy
(2013-11-26)
In memory of Dr. C.V. Seshadri, a maverick scientist and a social change agent, it is suggested that a new model for sustainable livelihoods is followed. The ex-ante and ex-post transaction costs of innovators, investors ...
Values in Vogue: Institutional Pathways for Sustaining Grassroots Innovations for Creating Public Goods
(2013-11-27)
The institutional pathways through which grassroots struggles and initiatives can not only be articulated but also nurtured are crucial for inclusive development. It has been noted earlier that to institutionalize even a ...
Science and Technology for Inclusive Social Development in 12th Five Year Plan
(2013-11-26)
India has used science and technology for social development right from the beginning of planned development. The first time when television programmes were beamed through satellite, it was for education and not just ...
Roadmap for Educational Innovation in Institutions of Higher Learning: Towards Inter-University Centre for Innovation
(2013-11-26)
It is ironic that while searching for models that promote excellence, we have not made the outstanding teachers and researchers the hub of future reforms. The fact that in any field of social investigation or higher ...