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UNINA9910809973503321 |
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Autore |
Soman Dilip |
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Innovating for the global South : towards an inclusive innovation agenda / / Dilip Soman, Janice Gross Stein, Joseph Wong |
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Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-4426-6648-X |
1-4426-6647-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Collana |
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Munk Series on Global Affairs |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Technological innovations - Developing countries |
Technological innovations - Social aspects - Developing countries |
Electronic books. |
Developing countries |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Rethinking innovation / Joseph Wong and Dilip Soman -- Poverty, invisibility, and innovation / Joseph Wong -- Behaviourally informed innovation / Dilip Soman -- Appropriate technologies for the global south / Yu-Ling Cheng and Beverly Bradley -- Globalization of biopharmaceutical innovation: implications for poor-market diseases / Rahim Rezaie -- Embedded innovation in health / Anita M. McGahan, Rahim Rezaie and Donald C. Cole -- Scaling up: the case of nutritional interventions in the global south / Ashley Aimone Phillips, Nandita Perumal, Carmen Ho, and Stanley Zlotkin -- New models for financing innovative technologies and entrepreneurial organizations in the global south / Murray R. Metcalfe -- Innovation and foreign policy / Janice Gross Stein -- Inclusive innovation / Will Mitchell and Anita M. McGahan. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Despite the vast wealth generated in the last half century, in today's world inequality is worsening and poverty is becoming increasingly chronic. Hundreds of millions of people continue to live on less than $2 per day and lack basic human necessities such as nutritious food, shelter, clean water, primary health care, and education. Innovating for |
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the Global South offers fresh solutions for reducing poverty in the developing world. Highlighting the multidisciplinary expertise of the University of Toronto's Global Innovation Group, leading experts from the fields of engineering, medicine, management, and global public policy examine the causes and consequences of endemic poverty and the challenges of mitigating its effects from the perspective of the world's poorest of the poor."--Publisher's website |
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