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Innovation and Development : the Politics at the Bottom of the Pyramid.
Innovation, often tempered by the language of inclusion, has become an indispensable element of contemporary development policy and practice in the so-called Global South. Driven by multinational companies, public-private partnerships and social enterprises, "innovation for development" ai...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
John Wiley and Sons, Inc. : Wiley-ISTE,
2018.
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| Colección: | Interdisciplinarity, science and humanities series. Innovation and responsibility set ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Acronyms; Preface; Introduction; Part 1: Theoretical Foundations: Innovation for Development, the Rise of a New Discourse; 1. The Project of Development as a Discourse; 1.1. Discourses, framings and narratives; 1.1.1. The order of the discourse; 1.1.2. Framings and narratives; 1.2. Development as a discourse: underdevelopment and "the others; 1.2.1. After post-development: the contemporary situation; 1.2.2. Technology, innovation and development: a contested political field; 1.3. Conclusion
- 2. The Cross-fertilization of Innovation into the Lexicon of Development2.1. Economic development and the role of innovation; 2.1.1. Growth theories and innovation; 2.1.2. Evolutionary theory and innovation systems; 2.1.3. Innovation systems and developing countries; 2.2. Reviewing the innovation and development literature; 2.2.1. Resource-constrained innovation (RCI): bricolage, frugality and jugaad; 2.2.2. The fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid; 2.2.3. Critics of the BOP approach; 2.2.4. Appropriate technology and grassroots innovations; 2.2.5. "Inclusion": an emerging discursive bridge
- 2.3. ConclusionsPart 2: Learning from the Field; Introduction to Part 2; 3. The Tale of the Poor as Market-led Consumers; 3.1. Grameen Shakti; 3.1.1. Creating resource-constrained innovation; 3.1.2. The green sub-narrative; 3.1.3. Institutional weaknesses and voids; 3.1.4. Empathy and creating social value; 3.2. Grameen Shakti's overall innovation and development narrative; 3.3. Conclusion; 4. The Tale of the Poor as Market-led Co-producers; 4.1. The case of Mother Earth; 4.1.1. The Industree ecosystem; 4.1.2. The problems of rural production; 4.1.3. Transforming production
- 4.1.4. Mother Earth's educating mission4.2. Mother Earth's overall innovation and development narrative; 4.3. Conclusion; 5. The Tale of "Inclusive Business Models"; 5.1. The case of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB); 5.1.1. IIMB's mission as a project of Western-inspired modernity; 5.1.2. An "Indian way to modernity"; 5.1.3. Inclusive business models and inclusive innovation; 5.2. IIMB's overall innovation and development narrative; 5.3. Conclusion; 6. The Tale of Science, Technology and Innovation for Social Revolution
- 6.1. The case of the People's Science Movements (PSMs)6.1.1. Competing narratives of science, technology and development in independent India; 6.1.2. Pro-poor innovation for productive networks; 6.1.3. Innovation as a political artifact; 6.2. The People's Science Movements' overall innovation and development narrative; 6.3. Conclusion; 7. The Politics at the Bottom of the Pyramid; 7.1. Words, meanings and politics; 7.1.2. Comparing the case studies; 7.2. Self-help and inclusion: key buzzwords connecting innovation to development; 7.2.1. Self-help; 7.2.2. Inclusion