Assessing the appropriate grassroots technological innovation for sustainable development

Singh, Sonal H.; Maiyar, Lohithaksha M.; Bhowmick, Bhaskar

doi:10.1080/09537325.2019.1646420

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“…Recognizing such differences in food production and storage practices provides an important opportunity for marketers to engage in public policy by implementing jugaad (frugal) innovation in their marketing strategies. For example, an Indian entrepreneur developed a refrigerator made of clay that does not require electricity, branded as Mitticool (Singh et al, 2020). It keeps food and drinks cool for several days.…”

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Advancing Food Well-Being in Poverty Through Intersectionality

Ashik

Voola

et al. 2021

Australasian Marketing Journal

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This article explores the importance of employing intersectionality when investigating food well-being (FWB) in poverty framework. We argue that this approach provides a more nuanced and realistic lens for both marketers and policy makers when developing FWB strategies in the context of poverty. To this end, this article focuses on the intersection of ethnicity and gender to examine food consumption practices of two groups of women living in poverty in Bangladesh. Specifically, the research design uses semi-structured interviews with 16 Santal (ethnic minority) and 14 Muslim (ethnic majority) women to explore commonalities and differences in their consumption experiences. The findings provide new insights into how marketers and policy makers can engage with diverse ethnic communities to enhance their FWB. This article contributes to the FWB literature by introducing intersectionality as a mechanism to uncover differences in advantage and disadvantage based on overlapping categories of ethnicity, gender, and class. Implications for marketers and policy makers include (a) developing food policies that pay attention and respect to cultural norms and sociohistorical experiences, (b) creating and shaping social networks, (c) investing in infrastructure and utilities that prioritize ethnic minorities, and (d) seeking out jugaad (frugal) innovations.

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Advancing Food Well-Being in Poverty Through Intersectionality

Ashik

Voola

et al. 2021

Australasian Marketing Journal

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“…To evaluate the present situation of Environmentally Sustainable Development, we need to comprehensively consider the coordinated development of the resources, environment, and economy. Commonly-used methods in the literature include the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) [9,10], ecological footprint [11], material flow analysis [12,13], energy analysis [14,15], model of data envelopment analysis (DEA) [16,17], and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation [18,19]. However, the factor weight of the analytic hierarchy process is relatively fixed, so that it cannot handle the dynamic changes that may exist among the indicators [20].…”

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Evaluating Environmentally Sustainable Development Based on the PSR Framework and Variable Weigh Analytic Hierarchy Process

Wang

Jin

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Environmentally sustainable development is a multidimensional concept that emphasizes the integration of economy, society and environment within a region and the realization of dynamic balance. How to objectively environmentally sustainable development has been a major concern for scholars and policy makers. To address this problem effectively, we first obtain the indicators of environmentally sustainable development based on the pressure-state-response (PSR) framework. Then, we introduce variable weight factors in the traditional analytic hierarchy process (AHP), so that the weights assigned by experts to sustainable development indicators can change with time or space. In this way, we propose a new and improved weight distribution method called variable weigh analytic hierarchy process. Finally, we employ indicators of environmentally sustainable development based on PSR and variable weigh analytic hierarchy process to evaluate the sustainable development of cities in a case country. Our study found that: (1) indicators of environmentally sustainable development should consist of three parts: pressure indicators of environmentally sustainable development, state indicators of environmentally sustainable development, and response indicators of sustainable development; (2) with the variable weigh analytic hierarchy process, our ranking hierarchy process can handle dynamic changes among indicators better than the traditional AHP method and better reflect the true states of indicators.

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“…It is a well-known fact that at grassroots level, local communities suffer from inefficiency and low production capacity owing to lack of automation and shortage in the availability of skilled human resources (Singh, Maiyar and Bhowmick, 2020). Ultimately, grassroots innovation offers alternative technologies that meet the basic need of the grassroots communities at affordable prices.…”

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Exploring bottlenecks towards accelerating grassroots innovation in Namibia

Lisho¹,

Sifani²,

Lupahla³

et al. 2021

NJRST

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Grassroots innovation (GI) provides significant opportunities to develop creative solutions to address challenges of developing economies, like Namibia, where the majority of the people live under difficult economic conditions. Despite substantial research on grassroots innovation, there is still little understanding of the inputs required for its acceleration. This article explores; the existing legislation governing Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in Namibia, concepts of grassroots innovation and techno-entrepreneurship as a premise for mitigating any bottlenecks towards accelerating GI in Namibia. The Honey Bee Network (HBN) approach was employed in ten (10) regions of Namibia, to scout for and document locally designed solutions and traditional knowledge. The HBN framework was specifically used to explore existing bottlenecks to grassroots ideas with the potential to be refined to impact communities in terms of providing solutions to consumer needs through enhanced productivity, sustainability and poverty reduction. The findings of the study revealed that while there were some good grassroots innovation ideas, there is a lack of policy support for these ideas to reach their commercial or non‐commercial potential. It was concluded that there was a need for the services provided by technological business incubators in developing the marketing capabilities of grassroots innovators in Namibia. In light of the findings it is recommended that Namibia develops a National Innovation Strategy, with specific focus on acceleration of grassroots innovation, through establishment of regional makerspaces and provision of Technology Business Incubation (TBI), particularly in rural areas.

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Assessing the appropriate grassroots technological innovation for sustainable development

Cited by 16 publications

References 32 publications

Advancing Food Well-Being in Poverty Through Intersectionality

Advancing Food Well-Being in Poverty Through Intersectionality

Evaluating Environmentally Sustainable Development Based on the PSR Framework and Variable Weigh Analytic Hierarchy Process

Exploring bottlenecks towards accelerating grassroots innovation in Namibia

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