Emerging Patterns of Grassroots Innovations: Results of a Conceptual Study Based on Selected Cases from India

Anup Karath Nair (), Rajnish Tiwari () and Stephan Buse ()
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Anup Karath Nair: University of Strathclyde
Rajnish Tiwari: Hamburg University of Technology
Stephan Buse: Hamburg University of Technology

A chapter in Lead Market India, 2017, pp 65-95 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Among all the innovation strategies that seek to impact developing economies, Grassroots Innovation remains the least explored. With critics of Bottom of the Pyramid literature articulating the need for considering the poor as producers, a better understanding of the grassroots phenomenon may help companies to understand and integrate the Grassroots Innovation strategy into their business models and thereby allowing the poor to become producers of products and solutions. This study examines the dimensions and trends, which make Grassroots Innovations unique, as well as factors which govern and influence them. The study is based on in-depth case studies which were gathered during field work with the National Innovation Foundation in India. The data illustrates how factors like education, age, occupation and sector influence the triggers and the outcomes of Grassroots Innovations. It also demonstrates how individuals, institutions and firms could collaborate to commercialize these products and solutions.

Keywords: Grassroots innovations; India; Bottom of the pyramid; Innovation bricolage; Frugal innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46392-6_4

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