Innovation for us for Rapid Change

Copy things that already work

• China and India Ecommerce, Big tech - have succeeded

Maker Hubs

Honeybee networks - 140k ideas gathered by Anil Gupta online

BPYR 101 and Appropriate, Frugal Innovation

• Globals - 0.1% - ultra wealthy in India - aligned with international mobile
• Strivers - 1% -
• Seekers 15% - Urban
• Aspiring Poor
• Deprived Poor

Innovation Networks, Cross-Pollination

Indian Innovation Jugaad Leaders

Uddhab Bharali cannot stop inventing things. He has created over 140 devices to help improve the lives of people. From agricultural machines that helps farmers grow green tea, to portable toilets that allow women safe access, to devices that allow disabled people to eat. His frugal innovation is transforming lives across India

1. Grass roots Jugad - informal sector and craftsmenship

Solutions not just 'For' the poor but also 'By' the poor. - Prof Anil Gupta - Frugal Innovation

• Sample Ideas

  • Iron fish put in pot for cooking dal - will provide enough iron for 5 years - or just have cast iron pot
  • Guda - brown sugar made in iron vessels - by giving girls a little brown sugar - iron deficiency fixed Also jaggery has multiple nutrients - solves many things!

• Started Honeybee Network to share ideas across the country - started ~1992

  • Principles
    • Must use local languages not just English - so sharing can happen
    • Transparency - Voice, Velocity given to authors
    • If there is revenue - a reasonable share of income should go back to ideas
  • Online - Honey Bee Network
  • Distribute, share 4GB data of all back issues of data
  • Amit Kapoor doing another platform to distribute

• For a product or service to be successful in mass

  • Accessibility
  • Affordability
  • Available - cannot be a stock out eg cheap

• Criticisms

  • Ideas are not really worth that much - really worth only if implemented!
  • Wouldn't distribution matter => Let large well funded, well known companies be mooted first -> Amit Gupta says: Go with untested people, untested ideas - they will come up with different ideas -> Well powered companies will get enough support
  • Cultural Bottlenecks

• Anil Gupta puzzles why India Corporates not interested

• d Keynote by Prof. Anil Gupta, IIM Ahmedabad

• The Honey Bee Network: Voices from Grassroots Innovators | Cultural Survival

• Introductory Keynote by Anil Gupta - YouTube

• Anil Gupta: India's hidden hotbeds of invention - YouTube
• Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Anil Gupta - YouTube
• Anil Gupta: "Emerging Frugal Innovations in Energy" | GCEP-Reliance India Workshop - YouTube

2. Inclusive Innovations

• For the Poor, can be developed by larger companies

Ex Tata Nano

3. Frugal Innovation are productive

• Context sensitive solution to a problem - do more with less
• More innovative solutions in resource poor environments
• Not just for developing
• Jaideep Prabhu, et al

4. Apply advanced research to on the ground applications

• eg ISROs mars mission ultra cheap <$50m
• Israel irrigation, weather forecasting help - better saved tens of thousands nowadays

5. Reverse Innovation

• Ph 1 - Globalization - products designed in developed markets for sale in developing, BPYR
• Ph 2 Glocalization - Some of the localization, customization, productization done in developing, BPYR - more appropriate
• Ph 3 Local innovation

• Ph 4 Innovation in Country for the World

• Pioneered by Dartmouth prof Vijay Govindrajan

• GE EEG machines - portable, robust Marc 400 $1000 (tenth of US) and GE Marc 1 - loved by Ambulances, Primary doctors

6. Frugal Innovation for Large Companies 101

• Navi Radjou: "Frugal Innovation: How To Do More With Less" | Authors at Google - YouTube
• Big Questions, Big Ideas: Frugal Innovation with Navi Radjou - YouTube
• What is FRUGAL INNOVATION? What does FRUGAL INNOVATION mean? FRUGAL INNOVATION meaning & explanation - YouTube

Great hunger in MNCs for Frugal Innovation

This interest and hunger in MNCs are far more than in Indian companies

7. Becoming part of the Culture and Teaching Innovation

• Navi Radjou: Frugal Innovation in Schools - YouTube

Resources

Jugaad Books

• [Jugaad Innovation book by Jaideep Prabhu]
• Nice Booker, US Professor at Ohio State University on Indian innovation

Videos

• Jugaad Man: The Non-stop inventor - BBC News - YouTube
• YouTube
• Navi Radjou: Creative problem-solving in the face of extreme limits - YouTube
• Frugal Innovation - YouTube
• Frugal innovation in healthcare | The Economist - YouTube
• India : Universe of frugal innovation - #DownToEarth - YouTube
• Frugal Engineering & Jugaad Innovations - YouTube

Jugad Cases in India

Cycle innovations

• Floats, Thresh grain, etc. - Prof. Anil Gupta, IIM Ahmedabad took list of