Innovation and scientific development

Enabling scientific innovation.

THESE SHOULD BE WONDERFUL TIMES FOR PHYSICISTS. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL AND computational capabilities have opened windows to research areas that previously had seemed out of our reach. We now can see in exquisite detail what atoms are doing inside complex materials, and we have the tools to test predictive theories of what’s happening. We have been able do this in ways that are interesting no...

Development and Distributed Innovation

Open source software development is a production model that exploits the distributed intelligence of participants in Internet communities. This model is efficient because of two related reasons: it avoids the inefficiencies of a strong intellectual property regime and it implements concurrently design and testing of software modules. The hazard of open source is that projects can " fork " into ...

Observations on Indian Scientific Innovation Output

Innovation has been referred to as the process by which value enhancement is planned and achieved for the benefit of society. Industrial innovation is comprised of several factors which constitute the input, process, and output dimensions of the innovation process. Industrial innovation has been assessed via several indices and primarily by patents and research and development (R&D) intensity. ...

Development , Innovation , and Coordination Costs

Technological Innovation , Entrepreneurship and Development

Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven industrialization. If we consider the share of non-OECD countries in global trade in manufactures, this has been a...