Politics of innovation and development: The role of industry associations in integrating political, bureaucratic, industrial and health systems in India and South Africa

Papaioannou, Theo; Watkins, Andrew; Kale, Dinar and Mugwagwa, Julius (2018). Politics of innovation and development: The role of industry associations in integrating political, bureaucratic, industrial and health systems in India and South Africa. Development Policy Review, 36(S1) 0531-0551.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12308

Abstract

Integrating political, bureaucratic, industrial and healthcare systems has been a major challenge for politics of innovation and development policy in low-and middle-income countries. This challenge has so far been understood in terms of separate industrial and health-related innovation policies without paying adequate attention to the institutional roles of biopharmaceutical and other umbrella associations. This article seeks to examine such roles in the developmental contexts of South Africa and India. The argument put forward is that, in both countries, biopharmaceutical and umbrella associations have evolved from lobbying organizations to institutional partners who influence the politics of innovation and development— and therefore the degree of integration and fragmentation— of political, bureaucratic, industrial innovation and health systems.

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• Item ORO ID
• 53958
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 1467-7679
• Project Funding Details

• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  Unpacking the role of industry associations in diffusion and governance of health innovations in developing countries (XD-12-003-TP)	RPG-2013-013	LEVERHULME The Leverhulme Trust

• Keywords
• development policy, health systems, India, industry associations, politics of innovation, South Africa
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Development
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Research Group
• International Development & Inclusive Innovation
  Institute for Innovation Generation in the Life Sciences (Innogen)
• Depositing User
• Theo Papaioannou