Editorial

As reported in this Journal in 2018, the fourth IndiaLICS International Conference and Training Workshop was held in November 2017, having a thematic focus on “Innovation for Sustainable Development: Perspectives, Policies and Practices in South Asia”.[1] The IndiaLICS is the India chapter of the Globelics, an international network of scholars who apply the concept of Learning, Innovation and Competence Building System (LICS) as a framework for promoting inclusive and sustainable development in developing countries, emerging economies and societies in transition. IndiaLICS engages in and pro-actively promotes the domestic and global exchange of scholarship in innovation systems and the translation of innovation to development outcomes. The Conference aimed to be multidisciplinary in its approach by including scholars, innovators, practitioners and members of the development or civil society organisations.