Capability building through innovation for unserved lower end mega markets

Lim, Chaisung; Han, Seok-Hee; Ito, Hiroshi C.

doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2013.06.010

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“…These frugal innovators must devise low-cost strategies to handle resource limitations when innovating, developing and delivering products and services to low-income users in emerging markets, where affordability, resources and institutional constraints exist [75]. Frugal innovators need to build innovation capabilities by creating an innovation process that overcomes 'the deficiency problem' in generating cheap priced original products [76]. A frugal mindset is encouraged not only by a resource scarce environment but also a higher tolerance for uncertainty [77].…”

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How Frugal Innovation Promotes Social Sustainability

2016

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There is a need to develop an understanding of how frugal innovation promotes social sustainability. The objective of this paper is to find the connections between the two concepts of social sustainability and frugal innovation, by reviewing the existing literature concerning both fields. This paper presents a framework that identifies essential themes of social sustainability and explores them through frugal innovation. The framework builds on the important themes of social sustainability and shows their relevance in practice through frugal innovation. The notion of frugal innovation can be viewed as an approach towards realizing social sustainability and fulfilling the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

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“…Current academic literature touts the potential of frugal innovations in healthcare for low-income, middle-income and high-income countries such as with Narayana Healthcare,11 Aravind12 or the GE Mac 400 13. All three began in India and there are several reasons that makes the Indian context conducive for healthcare innovations 26…”

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“…The next step is to diffuse the innovations. Our global scan and research of frugal innovations, and their potential as reverse innovations, was commissioned by the Commonwealth Fund and was motivated by the need to extend the list of frugal innovations in healthcare beyond the eye-catching and oft-repeated examples such as Narayana’s US$1500 cardiac surgery,11 Aravind’s US$30 cataract surgery12 and General Electric’s US$800 MAC 400 portable ECG machine 13. Narayana Health took on the technical challenge to decrease the cost of one of the most expensive surgeries in the world, cardiac bypass, to approximately US$1500 per operation versus US$144 000 in the USA, US$27 000 in Mexico and US$14 800 in Colombia, while at the same time, upholding quality.…”

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The search for the holy grail: frugal innovation in healthcare from low-income or middle-income countries for reverse innovation to developed countries

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The healthcare sector stands to benefit most from frugal innovation, the idea that more can be done for less for many more people, globally. As a first step for health systems to leverage new approaches to offset escalating health expenditures and to improve health outcomes, the most relevant frugal innovations have to be found. The Institute of Global Health Innovation was commissioned by the US-based Commonwealth Fund to identify frugal innovations from around the world that could, if transferred to the USA, offer approaches for expanding access to care and dramatically lower costs. Our global scan was motivated by the need to extend the list of frugal innovations in healthcare beyond the impressive but oft-repeated examples such as GE’s MAC 400, a US$800 portable ECG machine, Narayana’s US$1500 cardiac surgery and Aravind’s US$30 cataract surgery. Our search involved (1) scanning innovation databases, (2) refining frameworks to identify frugal innovations and evaluate their reverse potential and (3) developing in-depth case studies. From 520 possible innovations, we shortlisted 16 frugal innovations that we considered as frugal and with potential for reverse diffusion into high-income country health systems. Our global search was narrowed down to three care delivery models for case analysis: The Brazilian Family Health Strategy around community health workers; Singapore-based GeriCare@North use of telemedicine and Brazil’s Saude Crianca community involvement and citizenship programme. We share core features of the three frugal innovations and outline lessons for practitioners, scholars and policymakers seeking to lower healthcare costs while increasing access and quality.

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“…Demand differences contribute to reverse innovation, which include performance differences, infrastructure differences, sustainability differences, regulatory differences, and preferences differences. Lim et al [10] putting Nano car in India's Tata company's as example, expound how the latecomer films continuously improve their technological innovation capability through the reverse innovation strategy.…”

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Research on the Influencing Factors of Reverse Innovation of Non - core Enterprises

Song¹,

Yu²,

Lu³

2017

Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Business Corporation and Development in South-East and South Asia Under B$R I

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Abstract-Innovation is the key to maintain core competitiveness for enterprises. In addition, innovation can make non-core enterprise become core enterprise, so it is vital for noncore enterprises and core enterprises. With the development of economic globalization and the deepening of reverse innovation, it is necessary to summarize the influencing factors of reverse innovation of non-core enterprises. On the basis of expounding the concept and characteristics of reverse innovation, this paper summarizes the motivation factors and resistance factors which influence the reverse innovation of non -core enterprises, and prospect the future research which will help non-core enterprises improve core competitiveness through innovation and enter the mainstream market.

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Capability building through innovation for unserved lower end mega markets

Cited by 77 publications

References 37 publications

How Frugal Innovation Promotes Social Sustainability

How Frugal Innovation Promotes Social Sustainability

The search for the holy grail: frugal innovation in healthcare from low-income or middle-income countries for reverse innovation to developed countries

Research on the Influencing Factors of Reverse Innovation of Non - core Enterprises

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