Innovation and Development : The Politics at the Bottom of the Pyramid

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 Development -- 2.1. 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. Conclusions -- Part 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.