Editors:
- Addresses the interface of technology, society, and business and discusses technology and economic policies
- Highlights the impact of technology on poverty, and analyses how innovative activities can shape employment
- Employs econometric techniques and other statistical methods, together with primary surveys
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: India Studies in Business and Economics (ISBE)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Corporate Dimensions
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Front Matter
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Social Dimensions
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Front Matter
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About this book
The studies emphasise the importance of innovations (especially patents) and human capital in influencing productivity across Indian states, the significance of patenting in determining the efficiency of firms, the role of business groups in promoting innovations, differences in the technological characteristics of multinational and domestic firms, and how mergers and acquisitions can promote R&D.
The papers on social dimensions analyse how innovative activities can shape employment, the impact of technology on poverty, the socioeconomic characteristics of mobile phone ownerships, use of information and communications technologies at educational institutions, and the influence of Synchronous Technologies in reducing access to teaching programmes.
The studies show that those Indian states that have invested in human capital and technology experienced higher labour productivity. Further, the studies establish a positive correlation between R&D spending and employment. Lastly, they demonstrate that the adoption of agriculture-related technologies can have a significant impact on rural poverty and consumption expenditures.
Editors and Affiliations
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Madras School of Economics , Chennai, India
N.S. Siddharthan
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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
K. Narayanan
About the editors
Dr. K. Narayanan received his PhD in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India, and pursued post-doctoral research at the Institute of Advanced Studies United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan during 2000–01. During his research studies in India, he was a recipient of the ICSSR fellowship at the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, India. His research interests span the areas of industrial economics, international business, socio-economic empowerment through ICT, environmental economics, economic impacts of climate change, and development economics. He has a number of publications in the field of industrial competitiveness, technology transfer, information and communication technology, international trade and the socio-economic impacts of climate change. The research journals in which he has published include Research Policy, Journal of Regional Studies, Technovation, Oxford Development Studies, International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, and Economic and Political Weekly. Two of his recent publications include edited books on (i) Indian and Chinese Enterprises: Global Trade, Technology, and Investment Regimes, and (ii) Human Capital and Development: The Indian Experience [both of which were jointly edited with N.S. Siddharthan published by Routledge and Springer, respectively. He also guest edited a special issue of the Indian Association of Social Science Institution’s quarterly on the theme “Human Capital and Development”, as well as a special issue of the Sage published international journal, Science, Technology and Society on the theme “Agglomeration, technology clusters and networks”. He is actively engaged in a web-based research group, Forum for Global Knowledge Sharing, which brings together scientists, technologists and economists. He is currently the Institute’s Chair Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Technology
Book Subtitle: Corporate and Social Dimensions
Editors: N.S. Siddharthan, K. Narayanan
Series Title: India Studies in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1684-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1683-7Published: 09 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9420-0Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1684-4Published: 01 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2198-0012
Series E-ISSN: 2198-0020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 207
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, R & D/Technology Policy, Social Structure, Social Inequality
Industry Sectors: Automotive, Biotechnology, Consumer Packaged Goods, Engineering, Finance, Business & Banking, Materials & Steel, Pharma