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This chapter sees a strong role for governments in directing and promoting continuous interactions between the S&T organizations and policy actors for an inclusive and responsive innovation system. Different countries have depicted differences in the responsive and inclusive behaviour of their National Innovation System (NIS) providing invaluable insights to the understanding of innovation. This chapter examines India’s policy responsiveness to foster inclusive and responsive innovation through the interactive NIS framework. It does this by drawing lessons from the Chinese experience of public intervention in S&T and innovation. The issues examined include linkages of S&T with other domains of the NIS, human resource and industrial research and the innovation ecosystem. While there are complexities involved in managing S&T and innovation in India, China has successfully transformed its institutions of knowledge and learning and engaged them in the growth process through an interactive model of innovation.
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Global Innovation Index, (http://www.globalinnovationindex.org/gii).
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The Global Competitiveness Report for the years under consideration.
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www.unido.org/data1/statistics/Research/cip.htm (For various years).
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Global Manufacturing competitiveness index, Deloitte (For various years).
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KEI reflects the suitability of the environment for using knowledge for economic development.
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We acknowledge the support of the sponsoring agency the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India for commissioning the study. We are also thankful to the entire project team Pradosh Nath, Sujit Bhattacharya, Parthasarthy Banerji, Kasturi Mandal, Debanjana Dey, Praveen Rawat and Abhishek Kumar for their active involvement in the study.
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Sandhya, G.D., Mrinalini, N. (2020). Learning from China: S&T and Innovation Policy Responsiveness. In: Raina, R., Das, K. (eds) Inclusive Innovation. India Studies in Business and Economics. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3929-1_11
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