Innovation for Inclusive Growth: Towards a Theoretical Framework and a Research Agenda

By Gerard George, Anita M. McGahan, Jaideep Prabhu. 2012

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Inclusive innovation, which we define as innovation that benefits the disenfranchised, is a process as well as a performance outcome. Consideration of inclusive innovation points to inequalities that may arise in the development and commercialization of innovations, and also acknowledges the inequalities that may occur as a result of value creation and capture. We outline opportunities for the development of theory and empirical research around this construct in the fields of entrepreneurship, strategy, and marketing. We aim for a synthesis in views of inclusive innovation and call for future research that deals directly with value creation and the distributional consequences of innovation.

Subfields: Accounting, Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Social identity and signalling success factors in online crowdfunding (2016, positive): “According to theories of social and organizational networks (George, McGahan, and Prabhu 2012), firm performance is improved when entrepreneurs form relationships with actors who can provide capital, advice, access and other valuable resources (Burt 2009b; Kotha and George 2012; Sorenson and Stuart…”
Inclusive Innovation: Definition, Conceptualisation and Future Research Priorities (2013, neutral): “George et al (2012) undertake a broad overview of inclusive innovation (understood as “innovation for inclusive growth”), and provide a research agenda from two directions.”
Entrepreneurship Amid Concurrent Institutional Constraints in Less Developed Countries (2016, background): “For instance, the reliance on or attachment to specialized resources cannot be assumed to exist and, in these cases (George et al., 2012), the ability to pursue entrepreneurship, in terms of “discovery, evaluation, and exploitation” (Shane & Venkataraman, 2000), is quite bleak.”
What is frugal innovation? Three defining criteria (2016, background): “In contrast, Basu et al. (2013) call the process frugal innovation—similar to George et al. (2012), who consider frugal innovation to be a complex process rather than only an outcome.”
Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty Reduction (2019, background): “The social and plight perspective also generally assumes that markets are the primary drivers of poverty alleviation, though markets need institutional restructuring in order to be more inclusive (e.g., George, McGahan, and Prabhu 2012; Sutter et al. 2017).”
Service Innovation in the Digital Age: Key Contributions and Future Directions (2015, background): “Research on innovation in emerging economies is gaining ground in management studies generally and in fields such as strategy, information systems, and marketing (see George et al. 2012).”
Assessing the relationships between human capital, innovation and technology adoption: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa (2017, background): “Accordingly, it remains unclear whether these findings will hold in an institutional environment of developing economies, where the “rules of the game” are often uncertain (North, 1990; Radjou et al., 2012; George et al., 2012).”
Framing inclusive innovation within the discourse of development: Insights from case studies in India (2018, background): “They all consider enhancing innovation capacity to be an important element of development, often advocating an inclusive approach (George et al., 2012; Heeks et al., 2014) that in some cases may also offer profitable opportunities for companies and entrepreneurs (London and Hart, 2011).”
Scaling up social businesses in developing markets (2016, background): “But, as we know, inclusive innovation, which benefits the disenfranchised, adds value and creates growth (George et al., 2012).”
Social Intermediation in Base‐of‐the‐Pyramid Markets (2013, neutral): “Such assumptions are more likely ‘variables’ rather than ‘constants’ in cases of social intermediation, and thus may alter the predicted structural outcomes of existing theory (George et al., 2012; Valentinov, 2008).”