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Innovation and Development

Author Richard Owen , Mario Pansera
Release Date: 2019/02/01
ISBN: 9781786302335
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Book Description

Innovation, often tempered by the language of inclusion, has become an indispensable element of contemporary development policy and practice in the so-called Global South. Driven by multinational companies, public–private partnerships and social enterprises, “innovation for development” aims to co-produce social goods (things of value) such as poverty alleviation with associated profit through innovative market-led solutions, opening up untapped and unserved markets in the developing world and exploiting the potential “fortune at the bottom of the pyramid”. But innovation for development is a contested notion with the capacity to shelter multiple political agendas.

By reviewing existing academic theory and discussing four in-depth case studies from Bangladesh and India, this book interrogates how innovation for development is being framed, its politics and the impacts it is having on rural communities on the ground. The analysis suggests both an emerging hegemony constructed around a neoliberal, market-led agenda and the existence of countervailing voices that question this framing, sometimes radically so.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
    1. I.1. Innovation emerges from under the radar
    2. I.2. Innovation, development and post-development
    3. I.3. A discourse “in the making”
  4. Part 1: Theoretical Foundations: Innovation for Development, the Rise of a New Discourse
    1. 1 The Project of Development as a Discourse
      1. 1.1. Discourses, framings and narratives
      2. 1.2. Development as a discourse: underdevelopment and “the others”
      3. 1.3. Conclusion
    2. 2 The Cross-fertilization of Innovation into the Lexicon of Development
      1. 2.1. Economic development and the role of innovation
      2. 2.2. Reviewing the innovation and development literature
      3. 2.3. Conclusions
  5. Part 2: Learning from the Field
    1. Introduction to Part 2
    2. 3 The Tale of the Poor as Market-led Consumers
      1. 3.1. Grameen Shakti
      2. 3.2. Grameen Shakti’s overall innovation and development narrative
      3. 3.3. Conclusion
    3. 4 The Tale of the Poor as Market-led Co-producers
      1. 4.1. The case of Mother Earth
      2. 4.2. Mother Earth’s overall innovation and development narrative
      3. 4.3. Conclusion
    4. 5 The Tale of “Inclusive Business Models”
      1. 5.1. The case of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB)
      2. 5.2. IIMB’s overall innovation and development narrative
      3. 5.3. Conclusion
    5. 6 The Tale of Science, Technology and Innovation for Social Revolution
      1. 6.1. The case of the People’s Science Movements (PSMs)
      2. 6.2. The People’s Science Movements’ overall innovation and development narrative
      3. 6.3. Conclusion
    6. 7 The Politics at the Bottom of the Pyramid
      1. 7.1. Words, meanings and politics
      2. 7.2. Self-help and inclusion: key buzzwords connecting innovation to development
      3. 7.3. Closing thoughts
  6. Epilogue
  7. References
  8. Index
  9. End User License Agreement