Research Catalog

Title

Innovating for the global south : towards an inclusive innovation agenda / edited by Dilip Soman, Janice Gross Stein, and Joseph Wong.

Publication

Toronto, Canada : University of Toronto Press, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wong, Joseph, 1973-
• Soman, Dilip
• Stein, Janice Gross
• Stein, Janice

Description

vi, 185 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• "Despite the vast wealth generated in the last half century, in today’s world inequality is worsening and poverty is becoming increasingly chronic. Hundreds of millions of people continue to live on less than $2 per day and lack basic human necessities such as nutritious food, shelter, clean water, primary health care, and education.
• Innovating for the Global South offers fresh solutions for reducing poverty in the developing world. Highlighting the multidisciplinary expertise of the University of Toronto’s Global Innovation Group, leading experts from the fields of engineering, medicine, management, and global public policy examine the causes and consequences of endemic poverty and the challenges of mitigating its effects from the perspective of the world’s poorest of the poor.
• Can we imagine ways to generate solar energy to run essential medical equipment in the countryside? Can we adapt information and communication technologies to provide up-to-the-minute agricultural market prices for remote farming villages? How do we create more inclusive innovation processes to hear the voices of those living in urban slums? Is it possible to reinvent a low-cost toilet that operates beyond the water and electricity grids?
• Motivated by the imperatives of developing, delivering, and harnessing innovation in the developing world, Innovating for the Global South is essential reading for managers, practitioners, and scholars of development, business, and policy."--pub. desc.

Series Statement

The Munk series on global affairs

Subject

• Technological innovations > Developing countries
• Technological innovations > Social aspects > Developing countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Rethinking innovation / Joseph Wong and Dilip Soman -- Poverty, invisibility, and innovation / Joseph Wong -- Behaviourally informed innovation / Dilip Soman -- Appropriate technologies for the global south / Yu-Ling Cheng and Beverly Bradley -- Globalization of biopharmaceutical innovation: implications for poor-market diseases / Rahim Rezaie -- Embedded innovation in health / Anita M. McGahan, Rahim Rezaie and Donald C. Cole -- Scaling up: the case of nutritional interventions in the global south / Ashley Aimone Phillips, Nandita Perumal, Carmen Ho, and Stanley Zlotkin -- New models for financing innovative technologies and entrepreneurial organizations in the global south / Murray R. Metcalfe -- Innovation and foreign policy / Janice Gross Stein -- Inclusive innovation / Will Mitchell and Anita M. McGahan.

ISBN

• 9781442646766 (bound)
• 1442646764 (bound)
• 9781442614628 (pbk.)
• 1442614625 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 863768273
• SCSB-11022936

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library