Industrial Innovation, Networks, and Economic Development : Informal Information Sharing in Low-Technology Clusters in India

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 geographi

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Kamath, Anant
Publisher:	Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
Subject:	Indien \| India \| Soziales Netzwerk \| Social network \| Innovationsdiffusion \| Innovation diffusion \| Technischer Fortschritt \| Technological change \| Low-Tech \| Low tech \| Innovation \| Informationsverbreitung \| Information dissemination

Extent:	Online-Ressource (181 p)
Series:	Routledge Studies in Development Economics Routledge Studies in Development Economics Ser.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction and conceptual outline; Defensive innovation in clusters, and the role of networks in informal information sharing; Economic relations within social relations; Summing up; Outline of the book; 2 A simulation model of informal information sharing under complex social relations; Introduction; Network structure and efficient knowledge diffusion; The model; Network analysis and settings; Results; Summing up, results, and lessons; 3 From modelling to empirical study 4 Informal information sharing in a universal affinity setting: empirical study of a coir clusterIntroduction; Technological modernisation in coir; The information base and pilot field visits; Findings; Lessons; 5 A network study of two handloom weavers' clusters; Introduction; Overview of handlooms at Balaramapuram, and the Saliyar cluster; Field procedures and questionnaire; Network analysis; Conclusions; 6 Community social capital and inherited cohesive networks; Background; The standard line: the centrality of community in technological progress in handloom Understanding the counter-example: the Saliyars of BalaramapuramConclusion; 7 Conclusions and policy lessons; Summary; A few lessons for policy; Supporting an economic-sociology approach to understanding knowledge diffusion and learning; Appendix: the Saliyars of Balaramapuram; Index
ISBN:	978-1-138-81546-9 ; 978-1-317-59889-3 ; 978-1-138-81546-9
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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