Dinesh Abrol
Biographic Data
| ID | 1745299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dinesh Abrol |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dinesh |
| FAMILY NAME | Abrol |
| SIGNATURE | ABROL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8228-8970 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhisthan Bill, 2025
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Transformative frame in system of innovation (SI) studies
Rural Industrialization, Drivers and Dynamics
This contribution offers a critical evaluation of the lived experience and ideas cultivated for rural industrialization as a residual path in India, to draw lessons for peoples' democracies today and their strategies on rural industrialization. The discourse on rural industrialization began under the influence of India's freedom movement. The forces of national liberation articulated an agenda of emancipation to unite working people across the co…
Agroecology and Agrarian Transitions
The article critically evaluates the attempt by the Modi government to promote the model of zero-budget natural farming (ZBNF) as an alternate path to agrarian development in India. It is well apparent from the analysis of the National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF) guidelines that the advocates of natural farming have chosen to turn a blind eye to the constraints of Indian agrarian structures in the shift away from selective delinking for foo…
Transnational Corporations and Local Innovation
Transformations to sustainability
Grassroots Innovation Movements
Building inclusive health innovation systems
This article presents an overview of the changes that are taking place within the public and private health innovation systems in India including delivery of medical care, pharmaceutical products, medical devices, and Indian traditional medicine. The nature of the flaws that exist in the health innovation system is pinpointed. The response by the government, the health, technology and medical institutions, and the evolving industry is addressed o…
When grassroots innovation movements encounter mainstream institutions
Grassroots innovation movements (GIMs) can be regarded as initiators or advocates of alternative pathways of innovation. Sometimes these movements engage with more established science, technology and innovation (STI) institutions and development agencies in pursuit of their goals. In this paper, we argue that an important aspect to encounters between GIMs and mainstream STI institutions is the negotiation of different framings of grassroots innov…
Charles Edquist and Leif Hommen, Small Country Innovation Systems—Globalization, Change and Policy in Asia and Europe , Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, US
Policies for Self-reliant Development
This article carries out an investigation into the experience of engagement with the idea of national self-reliance in the developing world during the period of last fifty years with a special focus on India's experience. It compares the experiences of implementation of the strategies of import substitution, export promotion and global integration with a view to understand their contribution to the achievement of the goals of development for a co…
Democratising Indian higher education
This paper seeks to address the problem of expansion of the system of higher and technical education from the perspective of democratising the system and improving the access to higher education for the people as a whole. It analyses how the policymakers are failing to do justice to the dimension of a sustained and meaningful expansion of the system of higher education in India. The pressure of rising demand from the socially and educationally ba…
Post-TRIPs Technological Behaviour of the Pharmaceutical Industry in India
This paper analyses the post-TRIPs behaviour of domestic and foreign pharmaceutical firms in respect of technology acquisition, knowledge transfer and domestic R&D in India. It evaluates the prospects of development of capabilities by domestic firms in a scenario where they have also chosen to enter the markets for generics in developed countries and build relations of subcontracting with multinational corporations in the sphere of R&D and produc…
Science and Technology
American Involvement in Indian Agricultural Research
On Social Forestry
Inventiveness in Society
Transformations to sustainability
When grassroots innovation movements encounter mainstream institutions
Grassroots innovation movements (GIMs) can be regarded as initiators or advocates of alternative pathways of innovation. Sometimes these movements engage with more established science, technology and innovation (STI) institutions and development agencies in pursuit of their goals. In this paper, we argue that an important aspect to encounters between GIMs and mainstream STI institutions is the negotiation of different framings of grassroots innov…
American Involvement in Indian Agricultural Research
Agroecology and Agrarian Transitions
The article critically evaluates the attempt by the Modi government to promote the model of zero-budget natural farming (ZBNF) as an alternate path to agrarian development in India. It is well apparent from the analysis of the National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF) guidelines that the advocates of natural farming have chosen to turn a blind eye to the constraints of Indian agrarian structures in the shift away from selective delinking for foo…
Inventiveness in Society
American Involvement in Indian Agricultural Research
On Social Forestry
Post-TRIPs Technological Behaviour of the Pharmaceutical Industry in India
This paper analyses the post-TRIPs behaviour of domestic and foreign pharmaceutical firms in respect of technology acquisition, knowledge transfer and domestic R&D in India. It evaluates the prospects of development of capabilities by domestic firms in a scenario where they have also chosen to enter the markets for generics in developed countries and build relations of subcontracting with multinational corporations in the sphere of R&D and produc…
Science and Technology
Democratising Indian higher education
This paper seeks to address the problem of expansion of the system of higher and technical education from the perspective of democratising the system and improving the access to higher education for the people as a whole. It analyses how the policymakers are failing to do justice to the dimension of a sustained and meaningful expansion of the system of higher education in India. The pressure of rising demand from the socially and educationally ba…
Charles Edquist and Leif Hommen, Small Country Innovation Systems—Globalization, Change and Policy in Asia and Europe , Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, US
Policies for Self-reliant Development
This article carries out an investigation into the experience of engagement with the idea of national self-reliance in the developing world during the period of last fifty years with a special focus on India's experience. It compares the experiences of implementation of the strategies of import substitution, export promotion and global integration with a view to understand their contribution to the achievement of the goals of development for a co…
When grassroots innovation movements encounter mainstream institutions
Grassroots innovation movements (GIMs) can be regarded as initiators or advocates of alternative pathways of innovation. Sometimes these movements engage with more established science, technology and innovation (STI) institutions and development agencies in pursuit of their goals. In this paper, we argue that an important aspect to encounters between GIMs and mainstream STI institutions is the negotiation of different framings of grassroots innov…
Grassroots Innovation Movements
Building inclusive health innovation systems
This article presents an overview of the changes that are taking place within the public and private health innovation systems in India including delivery of medical care, pharmaceutical products, medical devices, and Indian traditional medicine. The nature of the flaws that exist in the health innovation system is pinpointed. The response by the government, the health, technology and medical institutions, and the evolving industry is addressed o…
Transnational Corporations and Local Innovation
Transformations to sustainability
Agroecology and Agrarian Transitions
The article critically evaluates the attempt by the Modi government to promote the model of zero-budget natural farming (ZBNF) as an alternate path to agrarian development in India. It is well apparent from the analysis of the National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF) guidelines that the advocates of natural farming have chosen to turn a blind eye to the constraints of Indian agrarian structures in the shift away from selective delinking for foo…
Transformative frame in system of innovation (SI) studies
Rural Industrialization, Drivers and Dynamics
This contribution offers a critical evaluation of the lived experience and ideas cultivated for rural industrialization as a residual path in India, to draw lessons for peoples' democracies today and their strategies on rural industrialization. The discourse on rural industrialization began under the influence of India's freedom movement. The forces of national liberation articulated an agenda of emancipation to unite working people across the co…
Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhisthan Bill, 2025
,
Political science (12 works) · Economics (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Economic system (3 works)