The HOMESERVICE project studies services that: Ô Are offered to residents at their home either directly by the housing provider or via an intermediary organisation and Ô Effect sustainable development positively. The key idea behind the Homeservice project is that environmental burden can be...

Frugal innovations are often associated with sustainable development. These connections, however, are based on anecdotal assumptions rather than empirical evidence. This article evaluates the sustainability of four frugal innovations from water and energy sectors. For the purposes of the...

There is no lack of prefixes for a term innovation in innovation discourse. Concepts of frugal innovation and reverse innovation have emerged recently and there are already several hallmark examples of them. However, extant academic literature on these concepts is still quite limited. The...

The concepts of frugal and reverse innovation are recent entrants to the innovation literature. Frugal innovation conveys the important idea of innovating under circumstances of resource scarcity. Reverse innovation refers to another significant turn in thinking and practice – innovations from...

Poverty alleviation is arguably the most burning social sustainability problem globally, and business innovation for market-based means of poverty alleviation has proliferated in recent years. The so called base of the pyramid (BOP) and inclusive market streams of research emphasise that such...

The past decade has seen a proliferation of suggestions for market-based solutions to global poverty. While research emphasizes that sustainability innovation aimed at poverty alleviation must be grounded in user needs, few studies demonstrate how to study the poor for purposes of early phase...

This paper explores diffusion patterns of frugal innovations. Frugal innovation refers to products or services that are affordable, easy-to-use, and innovated under conditions of resource scarcity. When such innovations migrate from resource-scarce contexts to developed countries they are termed...

Poverty seems to be affecting the majority of the world’s people and nations. It seriously undermines their capacity to meet their own needs including food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water and altogether influences their quality of life. Poverty deprives also other aspects such as...