This book offers an innovative examination of how low technology
industries operate. Based on extensive fieldwork in India, the book
fuses economic and sociological perspectives on information sharing
by means of informal interaction in a low-technology cluster in a
developing country. In doing so, the book sheds new light on
settings where economic relations arise as emergent properties of
social relations.
This book examines industrial innovation and microeconomic
network behaviour among producers and clusters, perceiving
knowledge diffusion to be a socially-spatial, as much as a
geographically spatial, phenomenon. This is achieved by employing
two methods simulation modelling, and (quantitative, qualitative,
and historical) social network analysis. The simulation model,
based on its findings, motivates two empirical studies one
descriptive case and one network study of low-tech rural and
semi-urban traditional technology clusters in Kerala state in
southern India. These cases demonstrate two contrasting stories of
how social cohesion either supports or thwarts informal information
sharing and learning.
This book pushes towards an economic-sociology approach to
understanding knowledge diffusion and technological learning, which
perceives innovation and learning as being more "social "processes
than the mainstream view perceives them to be. In doing so, it
makes a significant contribution to the literature on defensive
innovation and the role of networks in technological innovation and
knowledge diffusion, as well as to policy studies of Indian small
firm and traditional technology clusters. "
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