The last decade witnessed the rise of China and India as important global players in the world economic system. Quite diverse socio-political and economic strategies were adopted in the organization of science and technology institutions and promotion of higher learning over the last five decades. Despite varying strategies, they shared similar goals of building national scientific and technological capacities towards development and economic growth in the post-war period. The main theme underlying this book project is that science and technology (S&T) systems with varying institutional arrangements are the basic building blocks on which innovation systems emerge over a period of time. The project seeks to advance the existing understanding of innovation systems from an evolutionary perspective by drawing on case studies from India and China. In doing so, the study brings together, for the first time, various facets in state mediation, S&T policy cultures, national, global and other institutional processes in a comparative and historical perspective.

PI: Venni Venkata Krishna