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Informal Innovations: Insights from Artisan Clusters and Makerspaces in India

Descrizione del progetto

Configurazioni tradizionali e moderne che favoriscono l’innovazione negli spazi informali

Uno dei limiti principali degli studi relativi all’innovazione, il motore di sviluppo economico di una nazione, consiste nella loro attenzione alle strutture formali dell’economia, quali industrie, aziende e organizzazioni di ricerca e sviluppo. Di conseguenza, sono presenti carenze per quanto concerne la letteratura relativa alle innovazioni che emergono in ambienti informali, nonché lacune a livello politico in termini di sostegno ai relativi progressi. Il progetto InfoInn, finanziato dall’UE, studierà le innovazioni sviluppate in contesti informali in India con l’obiettivo di fornire informazioni circa le risorse locali, le conoscenze, le collaborazioni e le attività che contribuiscono alle innovazioni in due siti: un cluster di artigiani «tradizionale» e un caso «moderno» di innovazioni informali rappresentate dai makerspace.

Obiettivo

Innovation is considered to be the engine of economic development for any nation. This is why studies on innovation have gained immense scholarly attention from different disciplines giving various insights. However, one major limitation of the studies on innovation has been their emphasis on the formal structures of the economy like R&D institutes, firms and industries. There is very scant literature that focuses on the innovations which emerge in informal environments. In academic literature, there have been no agreed frameworks that are targeted towards the innovations generated within the informal contexts. The limited amount of attention it received revolves around the concepts such as frugal innovations, grassroots innovations or jugaad. Moreover, policy thinking has been to suppress the informality and transfer it into the rigid formal sector. In view of the limited focus on innovations within the informal settings in India, this project proposes to study innovations developed in informal settings. Such study will offer rich insights into the innovative activities, local resources, knowledge and collaborations that contribute to innovations. The project proposes to take two sites showcasing the rich prevalence of informal innovations. The first site will be of a traditional artisan cluster. Whereas, the second site, will focus on a more modern case of informal innovations, represented by the makerspaces. This study will be useful to understand and compare the innovation characteristics in two different settings both representing some form of informality. My project InfoInn aims to:1) study the networks, collaborations, and modes of learning among the different actors which facilitate innovations within the informal structure and 2) theoretically advance the literature on innovations by studying the informal contexts that will pave the way to open new perspectives on how to methodologically study and measure innovations in such contexts.

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP. Cfr.: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.

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LUNDS UNIVERSITET
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 209 087,68
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Paradisgatan 5c
22100 Lund
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Södra Sverige Sydsverige Skåne län
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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