Frugal Innovations

This book draws on many years of research by the author involving collaborative work with various scholars and research institutions. It enables a different perspective on frugal innovations, as it draws on streams as varied as business management, sociology, psychology, philosophy, culture and engineering. This is missing in publications on frugal innovations so far. It is based on a mixed, multi-methods research approach (literature review, bibliometrics, expert interview, focus groups, case studies and conceptual work) in a multi-national context, providing rich insights.

Dr. Rajnish Tiwari is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management of Hamburg University of Technology in Germany. He leads the research program Global Innovation and has co-founded the Center for Frugal Innovation. Rajnish has advised Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) concerning "new global innovation pathways" and has led projects to investigate potentials of "affordable excellence" in industrialized economies in sectors such as food industry, automotive and renewable energies. He is an alumnus of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science and has been a visiting fellow at several universities in Australia, India, Japan and the USA. He has co-authored/edited seven books and published numerous articles and book chapters.