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008			140620s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781138815469 (hardback)
020			_z9781315746623 (ebook)
020			_z9780367871109 (pbk.)
041			_aeng
042			_apcc
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082	0	0	_a338.870954 _223
100	1		_aKamath, Anant. _9182484
245	1	0	_aIndustrial innovation, networks, and economic development : _binformal information sharing in low-technology clusters in India / _cAnant Kamath.
250			_aFirst Edition.
260			_aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2014.
263			_a1501
300			_axviii, 159 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
490	0		_aRoutledge studies in development economics
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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"--
650		7	_aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General. _2bisacsh _9182485
650		7	_aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development. _2bisacsh _9182486
650		0	_aTechnological innovations _zIndia. _9182487
650		0	_aSocial networks _zIndia. _9182488
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955			_brm13 2014-06-20 _crm13 2014-06-20 ONIX (telework)
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