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From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation: The Challenge for India
By Rishikesha T. Krishnan
Professor of Corporate Strategy & Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor of
Entrepreneurship
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Why is it that India is unable to be the source of major industrial innovations
on a sustained basis even though it has highly skilled talent and a penchant for
jugaad (creative improvisation)?
This book draws on social, cultural, political, economic and managerial
arguments to explain this paradox:
Firms are the primary agents of industrial innovation. While the incentive
for innovation by firms in India has increased after economic liberalisation
began in 1991, the inputs (funding, trained people and basic research and
development) for innovation by firms have not kept pace with firms’ needs. Nor
has the capacity of firms to innovate.
Government’s efforts to enhance the availability of inputs to the innovation
process have been ineffective because of the lack of a strategic and integrative
vision, inadequate resources, and poor implementation. Professor Krishnan
explains the government’s shortcomings in this respect in terms of the political
economy of India’s innovation policy.
Firms have failed to build an innovation capacity because of issues of
ownership and control, and a number of deeply embedded social and cultural
barriers to innovation. These include poor teamwork, the enduring importance of
upward hierarchical progression, and a weak systems and strategic orientation.
To overcome these problems, India needs to move from a paradigm of Jugaad (or
creative improvisation) to one of systematic innovation. Specifically, India
needs to (1) create a critical mass of new, innovative, technology-driven firms,
(2) enhance the technological capability of existing micro, small, and medium
enterprises, (3) transform large enterprises, (4) create a new incentive system
for universities and other institutions of higher education, (5) continue and
enhance the process of dynamic reform of public R&D organisations, (6) change
the structure of government involvement in supporting industrial R&D, and (7)
create supportive societal conditions for industrial innovation.
Replete with a strong conceptual framework, case studies, examples, and data
relating to India’s innovation performance, this book is essential reading for
anyone concerned with the future of Indian industry.
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