This volume looks at the challenges faced by the economy and society in Punjab, India. It probes into the economic issues, institutional development, and resources imbalance faced by the Punjab economy. It discusses regional research problems and futuristic approaches for a developing economy. The essays in this volume: • focus on comprehending economic challenges, agrarian structure and development - markets, R&D and public policy; manufacturing sector: opportunities and possibilities; • examine labour, caste and gender trajectories, exploring the question of freedom and livelihood; human, social and financial resources development; hunger, diet and disease: challenges for development paradigm; • present the macro and micro facets of development processes in the region and offer a way forward for long-run growth, sustainability and inclusiveness amidst the dynamic fast changing economies across the globe. Comprehensive and analytical in its approach, this volume will be of interest to young researchers, scholars, practitioners and policymakers working in the fields of Development Economics, Regional Economics, Evolutionary Economics, Sustainable Economics, Agrarian Development, Manufacturing, and Labour.

1. An important contribution to the growing field of 'Economics of Innovation', 'Systems of Innovation' and the broader fields of 'Evolutionary Economics' and 'Development Economics', the volume looks into different facets of the nature, structure, growth and impact of innovation on different entities. 2. Will be of interest to departments of industrial economics, international economics, political economy, economics of innovation, institutional economics, public economics, industrial organization, evolutionary economics, and international trade across the US/UK.