Innovation and Development: The Politics at the Bottom of the Pyramid

by Richard Owen and Mario Pansera

Innovation, often tempered by the language of inclusion, has become an indispensable element of contemporary development policy and practice in the so-called Global South. Driven by multinational companies, public-private partnerships and social enterprises, "innovation for development" aims to co-produce social goods (things of value) such as poverty alleviation with associated profit through innovative market-led solutions, opening up untapped...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786302330
• ISBN13: 9781786302335
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Wiley-Iste
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"