Table of Contents

Cover image

Title page

Copyright

Dedication

List of figures and tables

Acknowledgments

About the author

Preface

Foreword

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The tipping point eras

A three-dimensional framework to study India

1947: Licence Raj thinking

India’s decline begins

What the 60 years achieved

The disconnects

2007: The beginning of the innovation era

Notes

Chapter 3: India’s place in the new world order

An upswing in the 2000s

Innovation geo-dynamics: structural shifts

Washington, Beijing and Delhi: new power centres?

Chapter 4: Enviable growth

Liberalisation breaks ground for Entrepreneurship

Why Innovation is critical to sustain growth

Evidence for innovation-led competitiveness

Chapter 5: Groundbreaking changes

Globalisation 1970

The light bulb and the radio

The dial tone

Television

Computing

Mobile communications

The unforgettable Ambassador

Twenty-five years later

Chapter 6: Innovation foundation

Institutional infrastructure

Industry-academia collaborations

National research programmes

Government commitment

Impressive results

Gaps in India’s innovation system

Chapter 7: Gargantuan opportunities and mindless pitfalls

Accelerating rural development

Balancing the portfolio

Examples of rural engagement

Lessons from NREGS

Paradox in the trenches

Challenges of a noisy democracy

Rural development and the political process

The cost of change

Mismanaged natural resources

Infrastructure: elusive planning and missing accountability

Opportunities in infrastructure: public-private partnerships

Social change, an imperative

Chapter 8: Enhancing rural GDP through inclusive innovation

An inclusive innovation portfolio

India’s inclusive innovators

The national innovation system imperative

Chapter 9: Formalising innovation through a national innovation system

National innovation system – the concept

Evolving an NIS for India

NIS and globalisation

Lessons from the US innovation model

Role of the government in NIS

Policy dimensions

Policy areas

Establishing an environment for innovation

Conclusions

Index

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