Hemant Kumar – författare

This book explores the process of grassroots innovation in the context of the Global South. It explains why these bottom-up solutions developed by common people are generated due to a lack of available or affordable technology to meet their needs and how they are included in the mainstream imagination of the economy by studying these innovations in India. It analyses the grassroots innovation process from idea generation to its implementation.

Detailing both theoretical and practical dimensions of grassroots innovation, the book provides a holistic understanding of the phenomenon by tracing its history in the pre-independence discourse on development to the present-day policies for institutionalizing these innovations in the mainstream. It will provide the readers with a bottom-up commentary on innovation and development in the context of the Global South in general and India in particular. It adopts a qualitative research design with a wide range of data collected through interviews, participant observations, and field notes. The book contains seven chapters to describe the discourse, policy perspectives, and current practice of grassroots innovations in general.

The interdisciplinary, timely book provides thoughtful analysis for scholars and upper-level students in the fields of technology and innovation management, development studies, and public management.

This book explores the process of grassroots innovation in the context of the Global South. It explains why these bottom-up solutions developed by common people are generated due to a lack of available or affordable technology to meet their needs and how they are included in the mainstream imagination of the economy by studying these innovations in India. It analyses the grassroots innovation process from idea generation to its implementation.

Detailing both theoretical and practical dimensions of grassroots innovation, the book provides a holistic understanding of the phenomenon by tracing its history in the pre-independence discourse on development to the present-day policies for institutionalizing these innovations in the mainstream. It will provide the readers with a bottom-up commentary on innovation and development in the context of the Global South in general and India in particular. It adopts a qualitative research design with a wide range of data collected through interviews, participant observations, and field notes. The book contains seven chapters to describe the discourse, policy perspectives, and current practice of grassroots innovations in general.

The interdisciplinary, timely book provides thoughtful analysis for scholars and upper-level students in the fields of technology and innovation management, development studies, and public management.

This book provides in-depth exposure to emerging technologies and recent advancements in RF, Microwave, and Millimetre Wave Technologies. The book covers the basic concepts along with the recent advancements in designing and developing antennas and circuits for the latest technologies. The concepts of mode compression, Full Duplex communication, massive MIMO, frequency selective surfaces, reflectarrays, and metasurfaces have been discussed in detail. Various types of antennas, such as electrically small antennas, textile antennas, dielectric resonator antennas, etc., to be used for the latest wireless devices, RFID applications are also thoroughly explored. The concept of machine learning to develop data-driven models for antenna design is also discussed briefly to provide readers with an introduction to the ML algorithms. The readers will be able to understand the theoretical concepts and practical design aspects of various antennas, high-frequency circuits, and device modeling. The target audience includes but is not limited to undergraduates, post-graduates, research scholars, academicians, scientists, and professionals who are interested in getting the latest knowledge in the field of RF, Microwave, and Millimetre Wave Technologies.