Hemant Kumar, Gautam Sharma

Grassroots Innovation (eBook, PDF)

Discourse, Policy and Practice in the Global South

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the process of grassroots innovations in the context of the global south. It explains why these bottom-up solutions developed by common people are generated due to lack of available or affordable technology to meet their needs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040044261
• Artikelnr.: 70498058

Autorenporträt

Hemant Kumar is Assistant Professor at the Department of Studies in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, School of Social Sciences, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. He has spent more than a decade in India working on innovations in the informal sector with an emphasis on grassroots innovations. Other areas of interest for him include STS studies, marginalization in STEM, science, technology, and innovation diplomacy, as well as the history and philosophy of science and technology.

Gautam Sharma is an early career researcher with a PhD in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Studies from the Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India. He has worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at the DST-Centre for Policy Research at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India. Following this, Gautam joined Lund University, Sweden, within the Centre for Innovation Research (CIRCLE) and the Division of Innovation, Department of Design Sciences, as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. His research focuses on innovation in informal contexts, particularly addressing the challenges and opportunities in the Global South.

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations and acronyms
1 Introduction
2 Conceptualizing Innovations: Discourse in the formal and informal sector
innovations
3 Innovations from the Below: Inverted models of innovation and the Global
South
4 Grassroots Innovation in India: Philosophy, approaches and policy
5 Ideating Grassroots Innovation: Crafting solutions for the everyday
problems
6 Implementing Grassroots Innovation: The pathways of diffusion
7 Concluding Remarks
References
Index