Innovation in India

 

The research project on "The Context of Innovation in India: The Case of the Information Technology Industry", was successfully completed in 2002.  The papers have been published in a special issue of the Sage journal, Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 7, No. 1, (January-June 2002).  

A volume titled India in the Global Software Industry: Innovation, Firm Strategies and Development, co-edited by Anthony D’Costa and E. Sridharan, was published by Palgrave Macmillan (London) with an Indian edition by Macmillan India in 2004. This is the first book-length study of the Indian software industry since Heeks (1996).

The volume includes the chapters in the special issue published by Sage, with additional contributions by Rakesh Basant and Pankaj Chandra (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad), Deepti Bhatnagar and Mukund Dixit (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad) and Abhoy Ojha and S. Krishna (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore), Anthony D’Costa and E. Sridharan and a joint chapter by them.