Industrial Innovation, Networks, and Economic Development: Informal Information

Description: Industrial Innovation, Networks, and Economic Development by Anant Kamath This book offers an innovative examination of how low–technology industries operate. Based on extensive fieldwork in India, the book fuses economic and sociological perspectives on information sharing by means of informal interaction in a low-technology cluster in a developing country. In doing so, the book sheds new light on settings where ec FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book offers an innovative examination of how low–technology industries operate. Based on extensive fieldwork in India, the book fuses economic and sociological perspectives on information sharing by means of informal interaction in a low-technology cluster in a developing country. In doing so, the book sheds new light on settings where economic relations arise as emergent properties of social relations. This book examines industrial innovation and microeconomic network behaviour among producers and clusters, perceiving knowledge diffusion to be a socially-spatial, as much as a geographically spatial, phenomenon. This is achieved by employing two methods – simulation modelling, and (quantitative, qualitative, and historical) social network analysis. The simulation model, based on its findings, motivates two empirical studies – one descriptive case and one network study – of low-tech rural and semi-urban traditional technology clusters in Kerala state in southern India. These cases demonstrate two contrasting stories of how social cohesion either supports or thwarts informal information sharing and learning.This book pushes towards an economic-sociology approach to understanding knowledge diffusion and technological learning, which perceives innovation and learning as being more social processes than the mainstream view perceives them to be. In doing so, it makes a significant contribution to the literature on defensive innovation and the role of networks in technological innovation and knowledge diffusion, as well as to policy studies of Indian small firm and traditional technology clusters. Author Biography Anant Kamath is currently faculty at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India. Table of Contents 1. Introduction and Outline 2. A Simulation Model of Informal Information Sharing under Complex Social Relations 3. From Modelling to Empirical Study 4. Informal Information Sharing in a Universal Affinity Setting: Empirical Study of a Coir Cluster 5. A Network Study of Two Handloom Weavers Clusters 6. Community Social Capital and Inherited Cohesive Networks 7. Conclusions and Policy Lessons Appendix – The Saliyars of Balaramapuram Details ISBN0367871106 Author Anant Kamath Pages 160 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Routledge Studies in Development Economics Year 2019 ISBN-10 0367871106 ISBN-13 9780367871109 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 338.954 Affiliation Azim Premji University, India Publication Date 2019-12-12 UK Release Date 2019-12-12 AU Release Date 2019-12-12 NZ Release Date 2019-12-12 Subtitle Informal Information Sharing in Low-Technology Clusters in India Alternative 9781138815469 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135422341;

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