Innovating for the Global South

Dilip Soman is the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Behavioural Science and Economics, a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and the director of Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman (BEAR) research centre.Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Joseph Wong is Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Canada Research Chair in Democratization, Health, and Development in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

‘This book is particularly enlightening, even for the lay reader, in its itemizing of examples of strategies and innovations that are changing the lives of local populations as well as the ways both we and they think.’ - Larry Krotz (Literary Review of Canada vol 22:07:2014) ‘Innovating for the Global South offers a far-ranging and enlightening discussion on the right ways and wrong ways to attempt to improve life for the world’s poorest. It is commendable reading for professionals in business and global development worldwide.’ (The Futurist, vol 48:05:2014)

• Introduction: Re-Thinking Innovation – Joseph Wong (University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs, Innovation) and Dilip Soman (University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Marketing)Chapter 1: Poverty Invisibility and Innovation – Joseph WongChapter 2: Behaviourally Informed Innovation – Dilip SomanChapter 3: Appropriate Technologies for the Global South – Yu-Ling Cheng (University of Toronto, Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry) and Beverly Bradley (University of Toronto, Centre for Global Engineering)Chapter 4: Globalization of Biopharmaceutical Innovation: Implications for Poor Market Diseases – Rahim Rezaie (University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs, Research Fellow)Chapter 5: Embedded Innovation in Health – Anita M. McGahan (University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Associate Dean of Research), Rahim Rezaie and Donald C. Cole (University of Toronto, Associate Professor)Chapter 6: Scaling Up: The Case of Nutritional Interventions in the Global South – Ashley Aimone Phillips (Registered Dietitian), Nandita Perumal, Carmen Ho (University of Toronto, Doctoral Fellow, Political Science), and Stanley Zlotkin (University of Toronto, Hospital for Sick Children, Paediatrics, Public Health Sciences and Nutritional Sciences)Chapter 7: New Models for Financing Innovative Technologies and Entrepreneurial Organizations in the Global South – Murray R. Metcalfe (University of Toronto, Centre for Global Engineering, Globalization)Chapter 8: Innovation and Foreign Policy – Janice Gross Stein (University of Toronto, Political Science)Conclusion: Inclusive Innovation – Will Mitchell (University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Strategic Management), Anita M. McGahanGlossaryAbout the Contributor