Tracing The Motivation ToInnovate: A Study Of‘Grassroot’ Innovators In India

Extrinsic motivations like intellectual property protections and fiscalincentives continue to occupy the centre stage in debates on innovationpolicies. Joseph Schumpeter had, however, argued that the motive toaccumulate private property can only explain part of innovative activities. Inhis view, “the joy of creating, of getting things done” associated with thebehavioural traits that “seek out difficulties…and takes delight in ventures”stand out as the most independent factor of behaviour in explaining theprocess of economic development, especially in early capitalist societies.Taking the case of ‘grassroot’ innovators in India, we re-examine themotivations behind innovative behaviour.[...]

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Bhaduri, Saradindu ; Hemant, Kumar
Institutions:	Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
Subject:	Innovationsmanagement \| Motivation \| Anreizsystem \| Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung

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1. Introduction
2. Grassroot Innovation
3. Motivation to innovate: an outline of the basic framework
3.1 Indicators of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: A conceptual framework
3.2. A synthesis
4. Data, Sample and Methodology
4.1 Data Source
4.2 Motivation Scale
5. Towards some operational indicators of intrinsic motivation to innovate:An analysis
5.1 Motivation at the stage of Idea generation
5.2 Motivations at the stage of experimentation
5.3 Motivation at the stage of application
6. Conclusion
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