Event

Dialogue on Frugal Innovation

On Wednesday 28 of Spetember OtherWise organises a dialogue on Frugal innovation in Impulse debating centre. Frugal innovations are value-sensitive design and marketing strategies that bring relatively sophisticated products, services and systems within the reach of the billions of poorer and emerging new middle class consumers at the Middle and Bottom of the Pyramid. The challenge is not simply to provide stripped down versions to poorer consumers, but instead to provide value sensitive innovations without sacrificing user value.

Organised by Stichting Otherwise Wageningen
Date

Wed 28 September 2016 19:00 to 21:00

Venue Impulse, building number 115
Stippeneng 2
115
6708 WE Wageningen
+31 (0) 317 - 482828

We invite you to join the dialogue on frugal innovation, and hope to welcome you on the 28th of September.

Speakers

Haye Hazenberg – Haye is a postdoctoral researcher within the Frugal Innovations and Responsible Entrepreneurship: Case Studies in the Water and Health Sectors in East Africa project which is funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research Responsible Innovation program. Herein he studies the possibility of developing an ethical business model for technological innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid.

Haye has a PhD in Philosophy from K.U. Leuven University (thesis: A Theory of Global Justice and Global Governance).

Iva Pesa – Iva is a postdoctoral researcher within the Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa (a centre jointly run by Leiden, Delft and Eramus Universities). She studies frugal innovations on the Zambian Copperbelt, such as improved cook stoves and mobile money. Her research focuses on the interplays between technology, entrepreneurship and development.

Iva has a PhD in History from Leiden University, focusing on the social history of Mwinilunga District in North-Western Zambia.