Inclusive Innovation

Robyn Klingler-Vidra is Reader in Political Economy at King’s College London. Her research focuses on entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainability, with a focus on East Asia. She is the author of The Venture Capital State: The Silicon Valley Model in East Asia.Alex Glennie is Senior Policy Manager at the Innovation Growth Lab at Nesta. Her work focuses on supporting governments to develop more inclusive and experimental innovation policies, and she has published a number of reports on the theme of inclusive innovation.Courtney Savie Lawrence is a climate, systems, and social innovation practitioner. She has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the US across the grassroots to government spectrum, including cofounding the Circular Design Lab and working with the UNDP and UNICEF innovation teams.

A refreshingly grounded view on innovation, away from innovator heroes and ephemeral unicorns. This analytically rich book takes us through the origins of "inclusive innovation" and subsequently defines the concept as innovation by and for the problem-owners, innovation for both social and environmental good and last innovation that can take place everywhere. The large number of case studies on inclusive innovation from South East Asia, are a much needed academic contribution to enhance understanding of these tech-savvy and dynamic economies and the inclusive innovation processes emerging bottom-up to mitigate social and environmental challenges. This is an important book.Dr. Sidsel Grimstad, College of Human and Social Futures, University of Newcastle, Australia

• 1. An introduction to inclusive innovation 2. How: innovation by and for the problem-owners 3. What: innovation for environmental and social good 4. Where: innovation everywhere 5. The future of inclusive innovation