Innovation and Development: The Politics at the Bottom of the Pyramid (Interdisciplinary, Science and Humanities: Innovation and Responsibility)

by Mario Pansera (Author), Richard Owen (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2018

  $165.53

  The book describes the rapid rise, systematic infiltration and impacts of the buzzword innovation in the so called developing world. This has the capacity to shelter multiple agendas, from a desire to open up the 'fortune at the bottom of the pyramid' for multinational companies, to social and political community emancipation. Taking a critical approach and drawing on research collected by the authors in the Indian Subcontinent it describes the evolution and rising popularity of innovation, its politics, normative underpinnings and constitutive impacts on the ground. The research suggests a deeply contested but dominant 'market- ready and market dependent' framing is emerging that is having significant impacts on rural life and ways of being. This serves as a departure point for a search for other, often non - Western, narratives that sit in the margins of hegemony but which offer other world views concerning innovation, its purposes and goals and which offer other possibilities both in the developing world, and beyond it.