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Innovation Panel: India 2009
Challenges of India’s Innovation System
National and Sectoral Perspectives
Organized as Part of the BRICS Project @ CDS Trivandrum, 18th August 2009
10:00am to 1: 00 pm
Session 1
Chair: Shyama Ramani
Background paper
K J Joseph, Mahesh Sarma and Vinoj Abraham
Demand, Institutions and limits on Market Size
Smita Sreenivas
<Open discussion>
lunch
1:00 to 2: 30
2: 30pm to 5: 00pm
Session 2
Chair: Smita Srinivas
Speakers
Arijita Dutta Innovation and Traditional Medical systems
Shyama Ramani Innovation for the poor: The Case of Toilets in Rural India
K J Joseph & V Abraham Lagging Hardware and booming Software: An Innovation System Perspective
Latha Nagarajan Crop seed Market
<Open discussion>