Research Projects
India Related Reseach Projects at CBS
The Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Art Exhibitions (PhD project)
The current focus is on production and consumption of contemporary art in Copenhagen and India. Primary interests are contemporary art, cultural economy, exchange, value, art markets, aesthetics, museology and methodology.
Project Period: September 2007 - September 2010.
Contact: Nina Poulsen, Department of International Economics and Management
Euro-India
The project Euro-India is an EU funded project that has the main objective to scientifically and comprehensively conduct an in-depth knowledge mapping of India’s ICT R&D competences with a view to understand and identify future technological trajectories. The project aims to provide a better understanding of Indian ICT R&D capabilities from two perspectives. First, it provides the framework for better ICT R&D deployment and alignment between the two regions. Secondly, the project aims to provide input to the ongoing annual policy dialogue between EU and India.
Read more: www.cbs.dk/euroindia
Projekt period: January 2008 - December 2009
Contact: Mogens Kühn Pedersen and Sudhanshu Rai, Department of Informatics
Cultural Usability
This project aims to investigate the impact of culture on the results of established methods of usability testing. The production and use of technologically advanced information and communication applications are no longer restricted to the Western world, and there are indications that usability testing procedures developed for use in, e.g., Europe or the US, do not give reliable results in countries such as India, China or Malaysia. This project is an in-depth investigation of the cultural specifics that go into usability test situations in three countries: Denmark, India and China.
Read more: www.culturalusability.com
Projekt period: January 2006 - December 2008
Contact: Torkil Clemmensen, Departments of Informatics
A Comparative Study of Bollywood and Hollywood Economics
The project studies the organisation of film production in the Indian film industry in Mumbai, "Bollywood", with emphasis on the business models used by film producers. The study provides detailed information on the economic workings of the Indian film industry and its current transformation. Issues encompass revenue options, management of creative companies and creative labour under market uncertainty, product innovation and differentiation, and project organisation and the rise of studios vs. networks of independent film producers. The methods are interviews with leading industrialists, case studies of selected producers and film projects, plus a mapping of completed Indian films during different time periods. These data are compared to similar data for the US film industry, in order to highlight systematical differences and the viability of the emerging new business models in the Indian film industry.
Project participants: Mark Lorenzen (CBS) and Florian Arun Taeube (European Business School, International University Schloss Reichartshausen).
Contact: Mark Lorenzen
The social organisation of film production in the Danish, US, and Indian film industries
Full project title: "The social organisation of film production: A comparative study of institutions, network structures, and performance in the Danish, US, and Indian film industries".
The project focuses on the Danish and Indian (more specifically, Mumbai) film industries for a study, as no research on their social organisation yet exists, and because they constitute useful cases for cross-country comparison with each other and the USA (more specifically, Hollywood).
Further information: Read more about the project
Contact: Mark Lorenzen
Last updated by Bente Faurby 23/03/2009
