Handbook on Frugal Innovation

Cover
Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Tables
Contributors
Preface
1. Capturing frugal innovation: introduction to the Handbook on Frugal Innovation
Part I Including Frugal Innovation Thinking in Disciplinary Debates
2. Anchoring: a historical perspective on frugal innovation
3. Frugal innovation: some theoretical observations from innovation-economic and social-entrepreneurial perspectives
4. The apolitical framing of frugal innovation in the global south: beyond the tales of scarcity, heroic inventors and techno-fixes
5. Frugality in innovation processes: a heuristics-based perspective from the ‘informal economy’
Part II Embedding Frugal Innovation in Transdisciplinary Thematic Debates
6. Frugal innovation and sustainability: bringing together polarized views from the state of the art
7. Frugal innovators as change agents in circular economy transitions
8. A gender lens for frugal innovation
9. Governing frugal innovation for sustainable development: the hybrid domain
10. Frugal innovation and legitimacy
11. Fairness institutions for frugal innovation
Part III Technology as an Enabler
12. Value-sensitive design practices for frugal innovations
13. The frugal design of a medical centrifuge: distributed production as a frugal technology to increase access to medical devices in low- and middle-income countries
14. Frugal engineering solutions for recovery of resources from wastewater
15. Engineering capabilities for frugal innovations: the case of a radiation-free cancer detection device
16. Design and engineering for frugal product development
17. Frugality and jugaad in science: evidence from a research laboratory
18. ICTs as frugal innovations: enabling new pathways towards refugee self-reliance and resilience in fragile contexts?
19. Frugal innovation and digital platforms
Part IV Actors, Business Models and Blurring Boundaries
20. Lead markets, international business and frugal innovation
21. Frugal energy and the global markets of pico solar systems
22. Frugal process innovation and local innovation systems – the case of a small producers’ cluster in northern Vietnam
23. Frugal innovation: balancing between value capture and value creation
24. Frugal innovation in public service delivery: reflections from case studies in Kenya
25. University–business cooperation for frugal innovation: a case study of the University of Campinas
26. University-driven frugal innovations
Index