Has Open Innovation Taken Root in India? Evidence from Startups Working in Food Value Chains
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چکیده
Open innovation represents a paradigm shift in the technology development process New Millennium with potential positive implications for helping food system addressing grand challenges formalized through SDGs. Though evidenced mainly technology-intensive sectors of developed countries, several ‘erosion factors’ and their interplay catalyse open relatively traditional developing countries. The rise startups supplementary venture capital industry is hypothesized to play this role Indian system. Our paper examines hypothesis by leveraging large database startups. Several types have come up last decade are introducing innovations, apart from filling gaps value chains infrastructure-deficit regions. It classifies working based on main purpose each its functioning, though there can be interventions at different nodes chain overlap functions. interconnections between themselves business partnerships input companies, processors, aggregators, traders, hotels restaurants, supermarkets, e-commerce research organizations, various governments, international institutions like World Bank crop associations tea growers association constitute complex web. knowledge flows both outbound companies other actors sometimes opposite direction as well bi-directional. These fast expanding brought innovations that could not imagined just few years back emergence bodes harness higher level technologies. There need internalize these national policy issues inclusion. also calls rigorous models collaboration licensing agreements universities, governmental agencies.
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عنوان ژورنال: Circular Economy and Sustainability
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2730-597X', '2730-5988']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43615-021-00074-5