Indovation

1. Front Matter

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2. Indian Innovation for All

   • Thomas Birtchnell

   Pages 1-21

3. Indomobilities

   • Thomas Birtchnell

   Pages 22-38

4. Austerity in the Dark Ages

   • Thomas Birtchnell

   Pages 39-62

5. Austerity in the Spotlight

   • Thomas Birtchnell

   Pages 63-85

6. Expertise on a Shoestring

   • Thomas Birtchnell

   Pages 86-104

7. Bare-Bones Entrepreneurship

   • Thomas Birtchnell

   Pages 105-126

8. Close-Knit Communities

   • Thomas Birtchnell

   Pages 127-150

9. India: From Indolence to Innovation

   • Thomas Birtchnell

   Pages 151-158

10. Back Matter

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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 by focusing on the various circuits of globals where India's knowledge economy is concentrated: expertise, entrepreneurship and community. Birtchnell traces the various discourses and counter-discourses around an Indian way of working and illustrates how differences in the international dimensions of austerity allow India's knowledge economy to prosper.

• economy
• entrepreneur
• entrepreneurship
• innovation
• development aid
• development policy

• Sociology, University of Wollongong, Australia

  Thomas Birtchnell

Thomas Birtchnell is Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Wollongong, Australia. Previously he was a Research Associate in the Centre for Mobilities Research in Sociology at Lancaster University, UK in the ESRC Technologies and Travel project with Principal Investigator, Distinguished Professor John Urry. Thomas is also an Associate of the Lancaster University India Centre. He was awarded a PhD in Sociology at The University of Sydney, Australia.

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