About the Book
Provides a fresh perspective to the ongoing debate on the core themes of development economics.
This book, in honour of Robert E. Evenson, brings together diverse, yet interrelated, areas of innovations such as agricultural development, technology and industry while assessing their combined roles in developing an economy. Thematically structured, it covers innovation and economic development; technological progress and agricultural development; and technology transfer, national innovation systems and industrial development.
With essays addressing the significant aspects in development economics, it offers a unique contribution in terms of focusing on problems from the perspective of developing economies.
Table of Contents:
Legacy—Robert E. Evenson - Daniel K.N. Johnson
Technology, Innovations and Economic Development: An Introduction - Lakhwinder Singh, K. J. Joseph and Daniel K N Johnson
I: INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Education Reforms, Technological Change and Economic Development - Leonardo A. Lanzona, Jr
Eco-innovation: A Literature Review of the Challenges Facing the Development of Green Technologies - Daniel K. N. Johnson and Kristina M Lybecker
Social Inclusion and Institutional Innovations: Working towards a Policy-theoretical Framework - M. A. Oommen
II: TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Measuring Public Agricultural Research Capital and Its Impact on State Agricultural Productivity in the United States - Wallace E. Huffman
Access to Markets and Farm Efficiency: A Study of Bicol Rice Farms over Two Decades - Sanjaya DeSilva
III: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
Global Innovation Networks and Industry–University Interaction: A Study of India’s ICT Sector - K. J. Joseph and Vinoj Abraham
Globalization of Industrial R&D in Developing Countries: A Sociological Perspective - Binay Kumar Pattnaik
Technological Capability, Employment Growth and Industrial Development: A Quantitative Anatomy of Indian Scenario - Lakhwinder Singh and Baldev Singh Shergill
Intellectual Property Protection, Innovation and Medicines: Lessons from the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry - Dinesh Abrol
Appendix
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
About the Author :
Lakhwinder Singh is a Professor, Department of Economics and Coordinator, Centre for Development Economics and Innovation Studies (CDEIS), at Punjabi University, Patiala. Prior to this, he was a faculty member of the University of Delhi and National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi. He was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics at Yale University, USA and a Visiting Research Fellow, Seoul National University, South Korea. He has been awarded Asia Fellowship by the Institute of International Education, New York, 2001. Singh is the Founding Editor of the Millennial Asia: An International Journal of Asian Studies jointly published by SAGE and Association of Asia Scholars (AAS). His current research interests include the national innovation system, international knowledge spillovers, pattern of development, globalization and agrarian distress in developing economies. Apart from publishing more than 50 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in the books, he has the following books to his credit: Economic and Environmental Sustainability of the Asian Region, Routledge, 2010; Economic Cooperation and Infrastructural Linkages between Two Punjabs: Way Ahead, CRRID, 2010; and Punjab’s Economic Development in the Era of Globalisation, 2014. K.J. Joseph is the Ministry of Commerce Chair Professor at Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. He is also the Vice-President of Globelics and the Editor-in-Chief of Innovation and Development, published by Taylor and Francis. Professor Joseph also holds the position of expert in innovation studies in the Tianjin University of Finance and Economics appointed under the Tianjin Program of Recruitment of Global Experts. Earlier positions that he held include visiting senior fellow at Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, and visiting professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University and consultant to United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). As a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, he undertook research on technology licensing in India under the supervision of Robert Evenson at Yale University and published jointly with him. Apart from over 80 research papers, he has the following books to his credit: Industry under Economic Liberalization: The Case of Indian Electronics (Sage Publications); Information Technology, Innovation System and Trade Regime in Developing Countries: India and the ASEAN (Palgrave Macmillan); Export Competitiveness of Knowledge Intensive Industries, edited with Nagesh Kumar (Oxford University Press) and the Handbook on Innovation Systems in Developing Countries (Edward Elgar) edited with B.A. Lundvall, Cristina Chaminade and Jan Vang. Daniel K.N. Johnson is the Chair of the Economics and Business Department at Colorado College, and a tenured Associate Professor of Economics. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University (1998), which he completed under Bob Evenson’s supervision. He previously completed an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics (1992) and a B.Soc.Sc. Honours from the University of Ottawa, Canada (1991). He is the author of over 50 refereed journal articles, commissioned pieces and book chapters. Several of those are co-authored with Bob Evenson, and he takes special pleasure in talking about those with students as models of collaboration. He frequently co-authors with his undergraduate students, inspired by Bob’s methodology. Specializing in the economics of innovation and technological change, he frequently advises and lectures internationally on public policy related to intellectual property rights. In addition to his primary research on knowledge spillovers, he enjoys writing projects that apply economic models to unusual questions: predicting Olympic medal counts, explaining game show contestant behaviour, evaluating the impact of Walmart on residential property values, exploring philanthropic behaviour patterns, improving the marginal impact of microfinance lending programmes, explaining the adoption of new election equipment in the wake of vote count scandals, analysing where consumers can find the cheapest gas and evaluating pedagogical techniques and outcomes in economics. Feeling that it was not enough to simply study innovation and entrepreneurship, he founded and now runs three start-up companies, all serving the interests of higher education: Economics of Technology Consulting, Lightning Abstracts and BookCheetah.
Review :
[The book] is well crafted in terms of the flow of concepts….there are lots of interesting substantiated insights on the topics underlined and this is a genuine read for any scholar or practitioner, and particularly for policymakers who appreciate stronger innovation system as the pillar for the sustained growth of a developing economy.
The areas that the book covers could not have been more refined or subtle. This is precisely the core strength and the main attraction of the book…the book, nevertheless, has a strong quantitative focus spanning data, empirics and cases…this should not only guide future researchers in their choice of hypothesis, parameters and variables but would also offer serious insights and interpretations…the analysis and evidence presented in this volume would be important and informative to the development and public policy community in this regard.
