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Industrial Innovation, Networks, and Economic Development

Informal Information Sharing in Low-Technology Clusters in India

By: Anant Kamath

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Industrial Innovation, Networks, and Economic Development

Informal Information Sharing in Low-Technology Clusters in India

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 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.

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131759889X

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The Social Context of Technological Experiences

Three Studies from India

By: Anant Kamath

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The Social Context of Technological Experiences

Three Studies from India

By: Anant Kamath

This book demonstrates how technology and society shape one another and that there are intrinsic connections between technological experiences and social relationships. It employs an array of theoretical concepts and methodological tools to examine the technology–society nexus among three urban groups in India (traditional caste-based handloom weavers, subaltern Dalit communities, and informal female labour). It provides evidence of how innovations such as industrial technologies, communication technologies, and workplace technologies are not only about strides in science and engineering but also about politics and sociology on the ground. The book contributes to the growing research in innovation studies and technology policy that establishes how technological processes and outcomes are contingent on complex sociological variables and contexts. The author offers an inclusive, holistic, and interdisciplinary approach to understanding the field of innovation and technological change and development by involving various methodologies (network analysis, archival work, oral histories, focus group discussions, interviews). The book will serve as reference for researchers and scholars in social sciences, especially those interested in development studies, science and technology policy and innovation studies, information and communication technology (ICT) policy, public policy, management, social work and research methods, economics, sociology, social exclusion and subaltern studies, women’s studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be useful to nongovernmental organisations, activists, and policymakers.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000072207

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9781000072204

Next Generation Spin Torque Memories

By: Brajesh Kumar Kaushik,Shivam Verma,Anant Aravind Kulkarni,Sanjay Prajapati

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Next Generation Spin Torque Memories

By: Brajesh Kumar Kaushik,Shivam Verma,Anant Aravind Kulkarni,Sanjay Prajapati

This book offers detailed insights into spin transfer torque (STT) based devices, circuits and memories. Starting with the basic concepts and device physics, it then addresses advanced STT applications and discusses the outlook for this cutting-edge technology. It also describes the architectures, performance parameters, fabrication, and the prospects of STT based devices. Further, moving from the device to the system perspective it presents a non-volatile computing architecture composed of STT based magneto-resistive and all-spin logic devices and demonstrates that efficient STT based magneto-resistive and all-spin logic devices can turn the dream of instant on/off non-volatile computing into reality.

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Springer

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981102720X

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9789811027208

The Social Context of Technological Experiences

Three Studies from India

By: Anant Kamath

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Three Studies from India

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Industrial Innovation, Networks, and Economic Development

Informal Information Sharing in Low-Technology Clusters in India

By: Anant Kamath

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Informal Information Sharing in Low-Technology Clusters in India

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Industrial Innovation, Networks, and Economic Development

Industrial Innovation, Networks, and Economic Development

The Social Context of Technological Experiences

The Social Context of Technological Experiences

Next Generation Spin Torque Memories

Next Generation Spin Torque Memories

The Social Context of Technological Experiences

The Social Context of Technological Experiences

Industrial Innovation, Networks, and Economic Development

Industrial Innovation, Networks, and Economic Development

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