The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa is participating at the CSSI virtual symposium 2020. Greetje Schouten, Winfred Onyas and Peter Knorringa will host a Panel on Partnerships & Frugal Innovation during the CSSI virtual symposium 2020.
The CSSI symposia is an important gathering of practitioners and academics who come to share best practice and to discuss future issues in the design and practice of cross-sector partnerships. It is a setting where policy makers, civil servants, CEOs, and academics can discuss the nature and role of partnering and multi- stakeholder initiatives to address key challenges in, for example, climate, energy, poverty urbanization, and sustainable development.
The main theme of CSSI 2020 is “Putting Partnerships in their Place: Exploring the relationships between Practices, Policy and Place in Cross Sector Organising.” At the event, academics and practitioners will present and discuss new and innovative ideas for organizing and managing cross-sector collaboration.
Frugal innovation involves (re)designing products, services or systems to significantly cut costs, without forfeiting user value, in order to include consumers at the Base and Middle of the Pyramid.
About the Special session Partnerships & Frugal Innovation
We are delighted to chair the Partnering and Frugal Innovation track at the CSSI 2020 conference. The track explores:
1) the conditions under which partnering processes can contribute to impactful frugal innovation processes;
2) the role of partnering in the scaling of frugal innovation processes; and
3) the role of partnering in embedding frugal innovations in different contexts (including business ecosystems).
With an exciting line up of presentations to look forward to, the track will feature empirical research conducted in challenging socio-economic environments in Colombia, Uganda and Kenya. The papers will stimulate discussions on: innovating in challenging socio-economic circumstances; how innovations help improve people’s quality of life; how and whether frugal innovators working in supportive environments impact livelihoods at the BoP; how cross-sector partnerships emerge and evolve to shape and develop a new technology; and how portfolio ecosystems can be developed to support sustainable frugal innovations.
Frugal Innovation and Partnering Panel Papers
- "Make Things Happen": University-Industry Interaction as a Partnership Mechanism to Drive Frugal Innovation in Colombia.
Darío Reyes Reina, Ariane Agnes Corradi, Márcia Siqueira Rapini - Building portfolio synergies and ecosystems to support sustainable frugal innovations
Winfred Onyas, Grace Sojourner, Mariah Nakintu - The impact partnerships and frugal innovations on livelihood at the Base of Pyramid: The Value chain perspective
Sarah Kyejjusa - Partnership based Innovation: tracing the emergence of a new device in a MNC-NGO partnership network
Annmarie Ryan, Paul Elingstad
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For more information regarding Partnering & Frugal Innovation please contact us via info@cfia.nl