scholarly journals External impetus, co-production and grassroots innovations: The case of an innovation involving a language

2019 ◽  
pp. 119640
Author(s):  
Wee-Liang Tan ◽  
Ghil'ad Zuckermann
Keyword(s):  
External Impetus ◽  
Grassroots Innovations

scholarly journals Addressing Sustainable Social Change for All: Upcycled-Based Social Creative Businesses for the Transformation of Socio-Technical Regimes

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 2527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Calvo ◽  
Andrés Morales ◽  
Pedro Núñez-Cacho Utrilla ◽  
José Manuel Guaita Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Niche Construction ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Grassroots Innovations ◽  
Video Case Study

The global challenges caused by socio-economic inequalities, climate change and environmental damage caused to ecosystems, require changes in human behavior at all organizational levels, including companies, governments, communities, and individuals. In this context, it is important to analyse how social and creative companies that work in the fashion and industrial design recycling sector can address sustainable social change. In this paper, we propose an analysis in the countries of the global South. To learn how grassroots innovations can contribute to the development of sustainable strategies, we perform the framework of Technical transitions. We analyze the three main areas of activity that constitute an effective niche construction: social networks, expectations and visions, and learning. A qualitative methodology is used, a video case study with six grassroots organizations in South Africa, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Brazil. The results reflect the important role played by these grassroots innovations, contributing to the development of social and creative recycling companies that address socio-economic and environmental problems.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF GRASSROOTS INNOVATION PRACTICE TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN MALAYSIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Fandi Ahmad Shah Amir Syah ◽  
Khairul Aidil Azlin Abd Rahman ◽  
Mohamad Fakri Zaky Ja’afar ◽  
Mohd Yazid Mohd Yunos
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Bottom Of The Pyramid ◽  
Multiple Resources ◽  
Grassroots Innovation ◽  
Grassroots Innovations

Grassroots innovation is an activity that uses multiple resources or indigenous technology to create an innovation more creatively. The innovations are often utilised to improvise the community and environment. The invented product or process is created at the bottom of the pyramid due to necessities, difficulties, and challenges. Malaysia thrives to become a high income developed nation through several initiatives, such as lifelong learning and innovation. Malaysians are encouraged to undertake education programmes to enhance knowledge and skills. These grassroots activities need to be discovered as they affect income and social values. The local grassroots innovators have difficulty commercialising the innovations due to a lack of skills, knowledge, and technology. This study aimed to identify the grassroots innovations, the process in developing innovation, and complement the innovation towards commercialisation. Local innovators adapt to the new product development process as a mutual understanding and for grassroots sustainable development.

Between Maoists and Millionaires, 1975–1996

2018 ◽  
pp. 129-154
Author(s):  
Mark Rice
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Development ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Shining Path ◽  
Machu Picchu ◽  
Adventure Tourism ◽  
Alberto Fujimori ◽  
International Investors ◽  
Grassroots Innovations ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Tourism Economy

Burdened with debt, the national state withdrew its investment in tourism development in Cusco in the late 1970s. More ominously, the growth of the Maoist Shining Path rebellion and its attacks on travellers nearly brought the tourism economy to collapse by the end of the 1980s. Yet, this chapter also documents the grassroots innovations in Cusco’s tourism economy. As traditional tourists avoided Machu Picchu, expatriates and locals created a new adventure tourism economy based on backpacking and hiking. Using new transnational cultural and travel networks, these efforts reinvented Machu Picchu as an exotic and adventurous site. The neoliberal government of Alberto Fujimori of the 1990s employed the new imagery of Machu Picchu as it sought to attract new private investment into Peru. These efforts brought in a bonanza of new Lima-based and international investors. However, the new state policies provoked local anger who rallied against tourism development perceived as unjust and as a threat to the region’s historical heritage

Understanding of grassroots innovations in India: evidence from the countryside

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sazzad Parwez ◽  
K. Chandra Shekar
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theoretical Methods ◽  
Grassroots Innovation ◽  
Grassroots Innovations ◽  
The Government

Purpose Disadvantaged regions in India suffer from various forms of problems aggravated by constraints of accessibility. This paper aims to conceptualize innovations as solutions to the problem at grassroots. Design/methodology/approach This paper tries to bridge empirical gaps in conceptualization of innovations at grassroots with the application of both empirical and theoretical methods. Findings Grassroots innovation is an important instrument to solve such problems in these regions, where appropriate solution is not developed by the government instrument or private agencies (market) in general with various forms of value creation. Originality/value This paper tries to bridge empirical gaps in conceptualization of innovations at grassroots.

Commercialising innovations from the informal economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gautam Sharma ◽  
Hemant Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Informal Sector ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Grassroots Innovation ◽  
Grassroots Innovations

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the commercialisation mechanisms of the innovations that emerge from the informal sector of Indian economy. Also known as grassroots innovations, they are said to better fit with the local market demands and conditions in the developing nations of the world. The paper discusses the grassroots innovation ecosystem in India and the role that is played by the state in providing institutional support. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on an exploratory study using both the primary and secondary sources of data. Primary data are taken from the interview of the innovators during the field work, whereas secondary data are acquired from research articles published in various journals indexed in Scopus and web of sciences, government publications and reports. The annual reports of National Innovation Foundation are analysed to gather information and to build the arguments for this paper. The secondary data are also collected and evaluated from the database of the grassroots innovators available on Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network. Findings The paper provides insight into how the grassroots innovations are commercialised in India through different pathways such as social entrepreneurship, technology transfer and open source technology. It takes four case studies to discuss the institutional support to the grassroots innovator and the challenges in the diffusion of the grassroots innovations. Research limitations/implications Due to the chosen research approach, the results cannot be generalised on all grassroots innovations. Researchers are encouraged to conduct a survey of more grassroots innovations in order to derive generalised outputs. Practical implications The paper includes implications for understanding the diffusion process of grassroots innovations that can be useful for all the emerging and developing nations. Originality/value The paper fulfils an identified need to study the diffusion modes of informal sector innovations and management of grassroots innovations.

scholarly journals Exploring the Contribution of Grassroots Innovations to Justice: Using the Capability Approach to Normatively Address Bottom-Up Sustainable Transitions Practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Belda-Miquel ◽  
Victoria Pellicer-Sifres ◽  
Alejandra Boni
Keyword(s):  
Capability Approach ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Grassroots Innovation ◽  
Grassroots Innovations ◽  
Sustainable Societies ◽  
Purchasing Group ◽  
The Capability Approach

There is growing interest in the potential of grassroots innovations for the transition towards more just and sustainable societies. Nevertheless, there is lack of clear normative discussion regarding these processes. The paper strives to propose and test a framework that enables an analysis of how and in which sense specific grassroots innovation processes may be contributing to the construction of more just societies. To this end, we connect elements of the multi-level perspective on sociotechnical transitions (frequently used in the analysis of grassroots innovations) with elements of the capability approach, which offers a multi-dimensional perspective to justice. The framework is used to address two purposively selected empirical cases in two key sectors in Spain: an energy cooperative and a food purchasing group. We draw on the information of 25 individual interviews with members of these two cases, on observation, and on secondary sources. Information was processed by means of a qualitative content analysis. We draw on predefined categories from the framework, which was refined during the analysis. The paper illustrates that grassroots innovations may be contributing to justice in several aspects: they expand capabilities in different dimensions, improve public reasoning processes, and create better structural conditions for human flourishing. Nevertheless, these processes are not free of tensions and contradictions.

scholarly journals Initiatives towards a participatory smart city. The role of digital grassroots innovations

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandra Boni ◽  
Aurora López-Fogués ◽  
Álvaro Fernández-Baldor ◽  
Gynna Millan ◽  
Sergio Belda-Miquel
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Grassroots Innovations
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