Creativity for sustainability: An integrative literature review

R Saleh, A Brem - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
How can creativity foster sustainability? This is a recently emerging question that sees
current approaches to sustainability solutions as lacking the use of creativity. Creativity is …

[HTML][HTML] Doing more with less-How frugal innovations can contribute to improving healthcare systems

S Sarkar, S Mateus - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
The dominance of an innovation discourse laden with cutting edge and expensive
technologies, may be preventing us from recognizing alternative and complementary …

[HTML][HTML] Frugal innovation as a source of sustainable entrepreneurship to tackle social and environmental challenges

MS Shahid, M Hossain, S Shahid, T Anwar - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
Sustainable entrepreneurs have increasingly faced challenges in achieving triple-bottom-
line objectives. The study portrays frugal innovation as a source to foster sustainable …

Firm engagement in UN Sustainable Development Goals: Introduction of a constraints map from a corporate reports content analysis

PA Nylund, N Agarwal, C Probst, A Brem - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have directed
attention towards sustainable development and contributes to coordinating firm activity in …

[HTML][HTML] Value creation using minimal resources–A meta-synthesis of frugal innovation

S Sarkar, S Mateus - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022 - Elsevier
The practice of frugal innovation (FI) has been garnering great research interest in recent
years. Although initially focused on emerging economies, the idea is now more global …

Frugal entrepreneurship: profiting with inclusive growth

M Hossain, S Sarkar - IEEE Transactions on Engineering …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Frugal entrepreneurship (FE) is increasingly considered an important change-maker in
emerging markets, serving the unmet market needs of the poor. However, we lack an …

Frugal innovation: Antecedents, mediators, and consequences

M Hossain, N Agarwal, Y Bhatti… - Creativity and Innovation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Frugal innovation (FI) describes a phenomenon whereby solutions are developed to serve
low‐income customers, mainly in developing countries, with affordable products and …

Backcasting frugally innovative smart sustainable future cities

A Ebolor - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper envisions alternative scenarios for future cities that are resilient environmentally,
socially, economically, and embedded in smart infrastructure and governance. It reinforces …

Frugal entrepreneurship: A way to seize business opportunities for low-income customers

MS Shahid, M Hossain, M Karami, T Anwar - Asia Pacific Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Frugal innovation (FI) is a recently emerged phenomenon that is increasingly gaining
importance to serve a set of customers in developing countries. Frugal entrepreneurship …

Fostering the Sustainable Development Goals with technologies underpinned by frugal innovation

A Ebolor, N Agarwal, A Brem - International Journal of …, 2022 - inderscienceonline.com
The race against time to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) intensifies, with
inequality, poor living conditions, and biodiversity threats still prevalent. Achieving the SDGs …