Bottom of the Pyramid as a Source of Breakthrough Innovations

By C. Prahalad. 2012

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Subfields: Business and International Management

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What is frugal innovation? Three defining criteria (2016, background): “First principles and approaches to develop frugal innovation have been published (Basu et al. 2013; Kumar and Puranam 2012; Lehner and Gausemeier 2016; Prahalad 2012; Prahalad and Mashelkar 2010; Radjou and Prabhu 2014).”
How Frugal Innovation Promotes Social Sustainability (2016, background): “Further, the lessons these established companies learn in BOP markets will serve them well in becoming globally competitive [55] and open the way to sustainable growth for the global economy [22].”
Do Global Value Chains Offer Developing Countries Learning and Innovation Opportunities? (2017, background): “In the management literature, this type of innovation driven by affordability, availability and access to poor people in developing countries is defined as ‘bottom of the pyramid’ innovation (Prahalad, 2012).”
Service Innovation in the Digital Age: Key Contributions and Future Directions (2015, background): “First, these countries typically suffer from serious resource constraints across the board (Prahalad 2012; Radjou et al. 2012).”
Crafting Sustainable Development Solutions: Frugal Innovations of Grassroots Entrepreneurs (2016, background): “Bricolage innovation, has been also suggested as an alternative to mainstream innovation to address the problem of the poor [22].”
Innovation and entrepreneurship in India: Understanding jugaad (2015, neutral): “First, Indian innovators (and their innovations) tend to be highly frugal (Prahalad, 2012; Radjou, Prabhu, & Ahuja, 2012).”
Innovation and productivity in formal and informal firms in Ghana (2017, neutral): “Although ingenuity has been considered as an engine of innovation activities for informal businesses (Prahalad, 2012), most of the literature has tended to look at observable indicators (e.g. firm size, age, education of workers and entrepreneur) as determinants of innovation.”
Sustainable business model adoption among S&P 500 firms: A longitudinal content analysis study (2018, background): “In addition, the archetype inclusive value creation is added, reflecting the growing number of peer-to-peer and sharing models (Bocken et al., 2016), the growing need for collaboration (Elkington, 1998; Elkington & Hartigan, 2007; Kraaijenhagen et al., 2016), and the need to include previously under”