Innovating for the Global South : : Towards an Inclusive Innovation Agenda / / Dilip Soman, Janice Gross Stein, Joseph Wong.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Soman, Dilip ,; Gross Stein, Janice,; Wong, Joseph,
• MitwirkendeR: Bradley, Beverly,; Cheng, Yu-Ling,; Cole, Donald C.,; Ho, Carmen,; McGahan, Anita M.,; Metcalfe, Murray R.,; Mitchell, Will,; Perumal, Nandita,; Phillips, Ashley Aimone,; Rezaie, Rahim,; Soman, Dilip,; Stein, Janice Gross,; Wong, Joseph,; Zlotkin, Stanley,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Munk Series on Global Affairs : 29
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 3 Figures

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Rethinking Innovation -- 1 Poverty, Invisibility, and Innovation -- 2 Behaviourally Informed Innovation -- 3 Appropriate Technologies for the Global South -- 4 Globalization of Biopharmaceutical Innovation: Implications for Poor-Market Diseases -- 5 Embedded Innovation in Health -- 6 Scaling Up: The Case of Nutritional Interventions in the Global South -- 7 New Models for Financing Innovative Technologies and Entrepreneurial Organizations in the Global South -- 8 Innovation and Foreign Policy -- 9 Inclusive Innovation -- Glossary -- About the Contributors