Innovation and Development

The Politics at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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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” aims to co-produce social goods (things of value) such as poverty alleviation with associated profit through innovative market-led solutions, opening up untapped and unserved markets in the developing world and exploiting the potential “fortune at the bottom of the pyramid”. But innovation for development is a contested notion with the capacity to shelter multiple political agendas. By reviewing existing academic theory and discussing four in-depth case studies from Bangladesh and India, this book interrogates how innovation for development is being framed, its politics and the impacts it is having on rural communities on the ground. The analysis suggests both an emerging hegemony constructed around a neoliberal, market-led agenda and the existence of countervailing voices that question this framing, sometimes radically so.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-12-07
Mått158 x 239 x 18 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor210
FörlagISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN9781786302335

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Mario Pansera is a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. His research focuses on discourses of innovation and development in the Global South, Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Innovation for Sustainability.Richard Owen is a Professor of Innovation Management at the School of Management, University of Bristol, UK. He researches innovation as a future-creating, socially constructed and politically and ethically entangled phenomenon from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective.

List of Acronyms ixPreface xiIntroduction xvPart 1. Theoretical Foundations: Innovation for Development, the Rise of a New Discourse 1Chapter 1. The Project of Development as a Discourse 31.1. Discourses, framings and narratives 41.1.1. The order of the discourse 41.1.2. Framings and narratives 71.2. Development as a discourse: underdevelopment and “the others” 91.2.1. After post-development: the contemporary situation 151.2.2. Technology, innovation and development: a contested political field 181.3. Conclusion 20Chapter 2. The Cross-fertilization of Innovation into the Lexicon of Development 232.1. Economic development and the role of innovation 252.1.1. Growth theories and innovation 252.1.2. Evolutionary theory and innovation systems 272.1.3. Innovation systems and developing countries 292.2. Reviewing the innovation and development literature 322.2.1. Resource-constrained innovation (RCI): bricolage, frugality and jugaad 342.2.2. The fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid 382.2.3. Critics of the BOP approach 402.2.4. Appropriate technology and grassroots innovations 412.2.5. “Inclusion”: an emerging discursive bridge 452.3. Conclusions 47Part 2. Learning from the Field 53Introduction to Part 2 55Chapter 3. The Tale of the Poor as Market-led Consumers. 573.1. Grameen Shakti 583.1.1. Creating resource-constrained innovation 603.1.2. The green sub-narrative 653.1.3. Institutional weaknesses and voids. 683.1.4. Empathy and creating social value 693.2. Grameen Shakti’s overall innovation and development narrative 713.3. Conclusion 76Chapter 4. The Tale of the Poor as Market-led Co-producers 794.1. The case of Mother Earth 804.1.1. The Industree ecosystem 804.1.2. The problems of rural production 844.1.3. Transforming production 874.1.4. Mother Earth’s educating mission 894.2. Mother Earth’s overall innovation and development narrative 934.3. Conclusion 98Chapter 5. The Tale of “Inclusive Business Models” 995.1. The case of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) 1005.1.1. IIMB’s mission as a project of Western-inspired modernity 1005.1.2. An “Indian way to modernity” 1055.1.3. Inclusive business models and inclusive innovation 1075.2. IIMB’s overall innovation and development narrative 1105.3. Conclusion 114Chapter 6. The Tale of Science, Technology and Innovation for Social Revolution 1176.1. The case of the People’s Science Movements (PSMs) 1186.1.1. Competing narratives of science, technology and development in independent India 1186.1.2. Pro-poor innovation for productive networks 1216.1.3. Innovation as a political artifact 1266.2. The People’s Science Movements’ overall innovation and development narrative 1316.3. Conclusion 133Chapter 7. The Politics at the Bottom of the Pyramid 1357.1. Words, meanings and politics 1377.1.2. Comparing the case studies 1387.2. Self-help and inclusion: key buzzwords connecting innovation to development 1447.2.1. Self-help 1447.2.2. Inclusion 1467.2.3. Some important limitations 1477.3. Closing thoughts 149Epilogue 153References 155Index 179