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Frugal innovation
About: Frugal innovation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 472 publications have been published within this topic receiving 9290 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that an empirical approach is needed to assess where and when frugal innovation is more likely to enhance inclusive development, and propose an empirical framework to evaluate the benefits of Frugal Innovation.
Abstract: Frugal innovation aims to bring products, services and systems within the reach of billions of poor and emerging middle-class consumers. Through significantly cutting costs while safeguarding user value, frugal innovation opens opportunities for new business models and may well disrupt innovation processes in entire economies. The debate on the developmental implications of frugal innovation is ideologically polarized. Whereas advocates suggest a business view of ‘win-win’ in which companies can earn profits while simultaneously alleviating poverty, critics argue that frugal innovation will merely exacerbate capitalist exploitation and inequality. In this contribution we argue that an empirical approach is needed to assess where and when frugal innovation is more likely to enhance inclusive development.
102 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify four main diffusion patterns of frugal innovations: local diffusion, proximity diffusion, distance diffusion, and global diffusion and label these diffusion patterns as local, proximity, and distance diffusion.
98 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors attempt to establish the missing links between supply chain sustainability and frugal innovation, and their study motivations stem from two facets of the emerging markets: first, the in...
Abstract: In this study, we attempt to establish the missing links between supply chain sustainability and frugal innovation. Our study motivations stem from two facets of the emerging markets: first, the in...
97 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a study aims at mapping the frugal innovation phenomenon and reveals that scholars affiliated with Indian institutes and originated from India have played a key role in this research discipline.
88 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive literature overview on the connection between frugal innovation and sustainability is presented, and the potentials and threats of FDI for sustainable innovation for sustainability.
81 citations