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Women and formal and informal science
(2010-07-26)
In this paper, we compare our insights from the formal scientific sector with our investigations in informal scientific sector. The effort to blend excellence in formal and informal scientific sectors would require overcoming ...
Building upon grassroots innovations: articulating social and ethical capital
(2010-01-18)
The healthy growth of democracy depends upon the emergence of decentralized, dispersed, polycentric spurs of social, ecological and economic entrepreneurship. Networking among these seemingly disparate cross currents some ...
Why don't we learn
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-12-01)
Rural development is essentially a process of widening decision making options of the majority of the poor. Creating choices without generating capacity to act might impair learning abilities of both, who create choices ...
Managing ecological diversity, simultaneity, complexity and change: An eco- political perspective
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-10-01)
Mainly Indian studies on Governance From Ecological Perspective during last decade were reviewed as a part of third survey on public administration organized by Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.
The ...
Review of post-graduate research in agriculture (1973-1984): Are we building appropriate skills for tomorrow?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1990-01-01)
Post Graduate Research has been an important source of generating technological breakthrough in social as well as natural sciences. The skills for solving problem of 21st century have to be created now. We have reviewed ...
Transferring science for development and diffusion of technology: Agenda for recasting extension science research for drylands/ rainfed regions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1990-01-01)
We argue that both, the system of technology generation as also transfer in dry regions/ rainfed high risk environments have to be differently designed than the systems suitable for irrigated regions.
In Part I, we discuss ...
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 ...