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Grassroots Innovation Movements

Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks of community groups, activists, and researchers have been innovating grassroots solutions for social justice and environmental sustainability for decades. Unencumbered by disciplinary boundaries, policy silos, or institutional logics, these grassroots innovation movements identify issues and questions neglected by formal science, technology and innovation organizations. Grassroots solutions arise in unconventional settings through unusual combinations of people, ideas and tools.

This book examines six diverse grassroots innovation movements in India, South America and Europe, situating them in their particular dynamic historical contexts. Analysis explains why each movement frames innovation and development differently, resulting in a variety of strategies. The book explores the spaces where each of these movements have grown, or attempted to do so. It critically examines the pathways they have developed for grassroots innovation and the challenges and limitations confronting their approaches.

With mounting pressure for social justice in an increasingly unequal world, policy makers are exploring how to foster more inclusive innovation. In this context grassroots experiences take on added significance. This book provides timely and relevant ideas, analysis and recommendations for activists, policy-makers, students and scholars interested in encounters between innovation, development and social movements.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 362g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Aug 2016
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781138901223

About Adrian ElyAdrian SmithDinesh AbrolElisa ArondMariano Fressoli

Adrian Smith is Professor of Technology and Society at the Science Policy Research Unit and a researcher with the STEPS Centre (Social Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) University of Sussex UK. Mariano Fressoli is assistant researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET Argentina) and researcher at CENIT (Centro de Investigaciones para la Transformación) and STEPS Latin America. Dinesh Abrol is Professor at the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID) New Delhi India and a Visiting Faculty with the Transdisciplinary Research Cluster on Sustainability Studies at Jawarhalal Nehru University. He was previously a Chief Scientist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research's National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies India. Elisa Arond is a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Geography Clark University USA and is also affiliated with the STEPS Centre University of Sussex UK. Adrian Ely is Senior Lecturer at the Science Policy Research Unit and Deputy Director of the STEPS Centre (Social Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) University of Sussex UK.

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