Innovative Pathways to Social Transformation: Disruptive Maintenance Through Social Impact Start-ups in Kerala

IF 1.7 4区 管理学 Q3 MANAGEMENT
Mohammed Raqib, Aalok Khandekar
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This article describes an emergent innovation ecosystem in the southern Indian state of Kerala. In contrast to a dominant national imagination of start-ups in India as spaces for the development of novel products with high economic potential, we suggest that start-ups in Kerala exhibit a tendency towards ‘social innovation’, that is, start-ups that are strongly oriented by the goal of addressing particular societal needs in addition to being successful on the market. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with start-up founders and other related stakeholders, as well as media and documentary analysis, we highlight in this essay key characteristics of social innovation in Kerala, including their reliance on tech-fix approaches. We also highlight the central role of the Kerala Start-up Mission (KSUM), a state-sponsored nodal agency, as a crucial enabler and shaper of the state’s innovation ecosystem. We further suggest that even as this innovation ecosystem is able to address important societal concerns, it nonetheless bypasses underlying social structures that produce them in the first place. Building on the work of sociologist Cornelius Schubert, we argue that it is analytically productive to interpret social innovation in Kerala as an instance of ‘disruptive maintenance’.
社会变革的创新之路:喀拉拉邦通过社会影响初创企业进行颠覆性维护
本文描述了印度南部喀拉拉邦新兴的创新生态系统。印度全国普遍认为初创企业是开发具有高经济潜力的新产品的空间,与此形成鲜明对比的是,我们认为喀拉拉邦的初创企业表现出一种 "社会创新 "倾向,即初创企业除了在市场上取得成功外,还以满足特定社会需求为目标。通过对初创企业创始人和其他相关利益者的人种学访谈,以及媒体和文献分析,我们在本文中强调了喀拉拉邦社会创新的主要特征,包括对技术修复方法的依赖。我们还强调了喀拉拉邦初创企业特派团(KSUM)的核心作用,它是一个由国家赞助的节点机构,是该邦创新生态系统的重要推动者和塑造者。我们进一步指出,即使这一创新生态系统能够解决重要的社会问题,它也绕过了首先产生这些问题的潜在社会结构。基于社会学家科尼利厄斯-舒伯特(Cornelius Schubert)的研究,我们认为,将喀拉拉邦的社会创新解释为 "破坏性维护 "的一个实例在分析上是有成效的。
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期刊介绍: Science, Technology and Society is an international journal devoted to the study of science and technology in social context. It focuses on the way in which advances in science and technology influence society and vice versa. It is a peer-reviewed journal that takes an interdisciplinary perspective, encouraging analyses whose approaches are drawn from a variety of disciplines such as history, sociology, philosophy, economics, political science and international relations, science policy involving innovation, foresight studies involving science and technology, technology management, environmental studies, energy studies and gender studies. The journal consciously endeavors to combine scholarly perspectives relevant to academic research and policy issues relating to development. Besides research articles the journal encourages research-based country reports, commentaries and book reviews.
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