Lead market India : key elements and corporate perspectives for frugal innovations

India is still perceived by some as a developing country that has yet to create world-class products of its own. However, this book shows that in recent years India has emerged as a lead market for frugality-driven innovations that are affordable, robust and successful even outside its geographic bo...

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Other Authors Herstatt, Cornelius (Editor), Tiwari, Rajnish (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer, 2017.
SeriesIndia studies in business and economics.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319463926
9783319463902
Physical Description1 online resource (257 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • India's emergence as a lead market for frugal innovations: an introduction to the theme and to the contributed volume
  • Frugal innovation: an assessment of scholarly discourse, trends and potential societal implications
  • Frugality in Indian context: what makes India a lead market for affordable excellence?
  • Emerging patterns of grassroots innovations: results of a conceptual study based on selected cases from India
  • Consumer innovation in the poor versus rich world: some differences and similarities
  • Lessons from low-cost healthcare innovations for the base-of the pyramid markets: how incumbents can systematically create disruptive innovations
  • Developing frugal innovations with inventive analogies: preliminary evidence from innovations in India
  • Made in India for the world: an empirical investigation into novelty and nature of innovations
  • India's electronic voting machines: social construction of a controversy surrounding a frugal innovation
  • Renewable energy in India: policies, trends and foreign direct investments in research and development
  • Commercial vehicle industry in India: an investigation of the innovation and business trends (2000-2015)