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Sustainability of Technology-intensive Social Innovation in India: The Role of Absorptive Capacity and Complementary Assets

In: The Rise of Technological Power in the South

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  • Xiaolan Fu
  • Christine Polzin

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Over the past 30 years, technology-intensive social innovations have gained an ever-growing role in the development of many low-income countries and can be expected to remain prominent drivers of social and economic change. Information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as internet and mobile phone tools, may help to create links to commercial and social networks, cut transaction costs and foster innovative ways of delivering social services such as education and healthcare to remote areas. One of the most innovative countries in terms of using ICTs for development projects (known as ICT4D) is India.

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  • Xiaolan Fu & Christine Polzin, 2010. "Sustainability of Technology-intensive Social Innovation in India: The Role of Absorptive Capacity and Complementary Assets," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Xiaolan Fu & Luc Soete (ed.), The Rise of Technological Power in the South, chapter 16, pages 320-340, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-27612-3_17
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230276123_17
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    1. Fu, Xiaolan & Ghauri, Pervez & Ogbonna, Nwamaka & Xing, Xiaoqiang, 2023. "Platform-based business model and entrepreneurs from Base of the Pyramid," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
    2. Haenssgen, Marco J., 2018. "The struggle for digital inclusion: Phones, healthcare, and marginalisation in rural India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 358-374.

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