Can entrepreneurs develop a nation, serve the poor, and pursue creative freedom, all while
generating economic value? In Chasing Innovation, Lilly Irani shows the contradictions that …

This book discusses the most significant ways in which design has been applied to
sustainability challenges using an evolutionary perspective. It puts forward an innovation …

Abstract Design is essential to fulfil unmet or under-served needs of resource-poor societies,
supporting their social and human development. A great deal of design research has been …

In Experimental Practice Dimitris Papadopoulos explores the potential for building new
forms of political and social movements through the reconfiguration of the material …

Extant approaches to information provisioning to farmers to improve agricultural productivity,
and thereby alleviate poverty have relied on top-down external expert-driven knowledge …

To respond to both global sustainability challenges and grassroots level needs in emerging
markets with innovative solutions, firms need the capacity to operate under societal and …

We aim to develop an innovative way to alter existing business models to conquer the
growth limits of exponential paradox by applying the open innovation concept to the design …

The social and environmental failure of successive Western development models imposed
on the global South has led local communities to pursue alternatives to development. Such …

Much of the growing literature on international entrepreneurship focuses on how positive
circumstances, such as having prior international experience, business networks, or formal …

The informal economy is emerging as a new normal. It is distinctively pervasive both in the
Global South and the North. Of late, scholarship in development economics has captured its …