Abstract:
Realising the vital role of research and development for building
international competitiveness of plantation sector, the Ministry of
Commerce established research institutes under different Commodity
Boards to undertake research and development on specific crop(s)
assigned to them. This study, apart from being a preliminary evaluation
of recent research undertaken by Indian Cardamom Research Institute
(ICRI) under the Spices Board of India, is a first step towards exploring
the synergy between different research institutions under the commodity
boards. By conceptualising innovation as a cumulative, interactive
and socially embedded process, the study has taken into account both
the inputs and outputs of research with due consideration for the
institutional context in which research is undertaken. The study comes
up with a number of recommendations and is presented in the concluding
section of this paper.
