Indovation: Innovation and a Global Knowledge Economy in India

by Thomas Birtchnell

Book Overview

How should we understand the many reports that poverty is the mother of innovation in India? What has the role of austerity been in the development of India's knowledge economy? In this critical study of Indian innovation, or 'Indovation', Thomas Birtchnell explores how the complex mobilities of 'globals' with stakes in India have transformed discourses and imaginaries about innovation in the region. He adopts a critical eye to the notion of Indovation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349439576
• ISBN13: 9781349439577
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"