TY - BOOK AU - Mandal, Kasturi AU - Asheulova, Nadia AU - Kirdina, Svetlana G. TI - Socio economic and technological innovations: : mechanisms and institutions SN - 9788184873399 U1 - 338.064 SOC PY - 2014/// CY - New Delhi PB - NAROSA Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. KW - Knowledge driven economy KW - Technological innovations KW - Socio-Economic reforms N2 - The study of institutions and innovation is currently high on the agenda of the social sciences. There is growing concern about how the institutional framework of societies leads to variation in their innovation systems. Around the world, countries have set ambitious plans to drive innovation and move towards a knowledge driven economy. Social and institutional backgrounds differing significantly across countries induce and allow different pathways to the business of innovation despite the homogenizing forces of science technology, finance and commerce. This book investigates aspects where mutual country institutions could learn or even strongly collaborate or else where the country institutions should necessarily follow singular track ER -