Determinants of grassroots innovation: an empirical study in the Indian context

Knowledge management and community-based enterprise: an initiative to preserve the shadow puppet traditional knowledge in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

“…Yeo et al (2013) stated that CBE also contains members who are grassroots innovators. These individuals develop and implement appropriate practices or technologies using available local resources (Singh et al , 2020). This principle is also known as entrepreneurial bricolage (Baker and Nelson, 2005).…”

“…While many philanthropists use a caricative approach, social entrepreneurs solve problems through innovative solutions, which use market mechanisms (Pathak and Mukherjee, 2020). An economic logic focusing on markets, profitability and creating customer value is combined with a social welfare logic to create value for society, specifically the poor or the oppressed (Gupta et al , 2003; Pathak and Mukherjee, 2020; Singh et al , 2020). According to Gupta (2012), creating value for local communities using local knowledge leads to local innovations.…”

“…However, it would be challenging to implement these goals in developing countries because of economic disparities (Gupta et al , 2003; Gupta, 2012; Gupta, 2020; Widjojo and Gunawan, 2020). The inequality of economies has also made the discussion of innovation a class bias because it closely relates to the discourse of corporate elites (Gupta et al , 2003; Singh et al , 2020). In some instances, the term “grassroots innovation” has been coined to describe the local innovations focusing on empowering marginalised communities in India (Abrol and Gupta, 2014; Gupta, 2013; Gupta et al , 2003; Gupta, 2012).…”

“…In some instances, the term “grassroots innovation” has been coined to describe the local innovations focusing on empowering marginalised communities in India (Abrol and Gupta, 2014; Gupta, 2013; Gupta et al , 2003; Gupta, 2012). According to Singh et al (2020), these innovations were initiated and actualised at the bottom of the economic pyramid and the top of the traditional knowledge pyramid.…”

Rare gems or mundane practice? Resource constraints as drivers of frugal innovation

“…Well-known examples range from the Tata Nano car (Roiland, 2016) to the 150-dollar prosthetic 'Jaipur foot' (Bound & Thornton, 2012), the GE Logiq Book and the Grameen Bank Microfinance. However, in the last years it has become clear that frugal innovation is not only the purview of large multinational corporations (MNCs), but in fact predominantly the domain of small and medium-sized domestic firms that introduce often more modest process and product innovations such as sewing machines that work well without electricity, passive coolers, low-cost urban transport services (Navi et al, 2012), or new types of bamboo shoot processing using traditional techniques (Devi & Kumar, 2018;Singh et al, 2019).…”