Innovating for the Global South - Towards an Inclusive Innovation Agenda (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Munk Series on Global Affairs
Release date:	February 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Dilip Soman • Janice Gross Stein • Joseph Wong
Dimensions:	235 x 157 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-4426-4676-6
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > International business Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business strategy
LSN:	1-4426-4676-4
Barcode:	9781442646766

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