Lakhwinder Singh is Visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi. Prior to this, he was Professor and Head at the Department of Economics, Punjabi University, Patiala, where he founded the Centre for Development Economics and Innovation Studies (CDEIS). He is the founding editor of Millennial Asia: An International Journal of Asian Studies. He has more than three decades experience of teaching and research and has published extensively in the areas of economics, development studies, and public policy. His most recent book, Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic Development was published in 2021.

K J Joseph is Director at the Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation (GIFT), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. He is also the Secretary General of the Globelics and the former President of Globelics. Prior to this, he was the Ministry of Commerce Chair Professor at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, India. He has also served as Professor at prestigious institutions of higher learning such as RIS and JNU at New Delhi, India. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Innovation and Development journal. He has researched and published extensively in the areas of economics, finance, development, and public policy.

List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Preface. List of Abbreviations. 1. Reimagining Innovation System in Pandemic Shock and Aftermath Part I: Challenges to Innovation System in Uncertain Times 2. Innovation System and the Covid-19 Crisis 3. Beyond the COVID19 Pandemic: Renewing Innovation Frontiers to Strengthen Sustainability 4. Innovation in the times of Covid-19: What can we learn from a pandemic in the knowledge economy 5. Global Governance, Covid-19 Crisis and Challenges to Innovation System: Perspectives from Asia Part II: Response of the Innovation System in Covid-19 Crisis 6. Innovating out of COVID-19 pandemic: whither developing countries? 7. COVID-19 Pandemic and the Emergence of Integrated Innovation System (IIS) 8. Creatively destroying Vaccine Apartheid: Emerging STI Lessons from the CoVID-19 Pandemic in a Combined, Uneven, yet Common, Global Context 9. Covid-19: Opportunities, New Expectations and Challenges for Innovation Policy 10. Firm responses to COVID-19 in India Part III: Critical Perspective on Innovation Policy in the Context of Covid-19 Crisis 11. Learning from Covid-19 for reimaging innovation systems - perspectives from Germany 12. Covid-19 and the relevance of reimagining Innovation Systems: a vision from Brazil 13. Reactivation policies to address the pandemic crisis: experiences in Costa Rica 14. Path Formation for Atmanirbhar Bharat and the Politics of India's Post-COVID 19 STI Vision and Strategy 15. The Covid pandemic as catalyst for directing innovation policy and research towards transformation and inclusive development: evidence from South African challenges 16. Reflections on fintech and COVID-19: lessons from Kenya 17. Dreaming with Innovation Systems: The Plausible Pathways from the Pandemic. Index.

This book brings together strategies for the adoption of new technologies and innovation systems which would help re-invigorate social and economic institutions and help communities, especially in the Global South.