Socio-tech innovation : harnessing technology for social good / edited by Latha Poonamallee, Joanne Scillitoe and Simy Joy.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020Description: viii, 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9783030395544 (pbk.)
- 23 650 SOC 019350
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Book | Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | 650 SOC 019350 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 019350 |
This book defines socio-technological innovation and lays out different aspects of technology innovation and adoption literature as applied to socio-tech innovation and entrepreneurship. Socio-tech innovation refers to novel solutions that involve development or adoption of technological innovations to address social and/or environmental problems with a view towards creating benefit for the larger whole rather than just for the owners or investors. Unlike conventional technological innovation, socio-tech innovation either develops a product specifically for underserved markets and adopts a model in which the market is not an afterthought but the rai-son detre. Social ventures have not been as successful in scaling up, though technology innovation-led ventures have; therefore, meaningful actionable insights that can help social ventures scale up successfully can be gleaned by this process. This book offers researchers in innovation and entrepreneurship programs a unique and interdisciplinary approach to studying social innovation that is grounded in technology innovation. This book features a series of socio-tech venture cases that illustrate these dynamics and can be used in undergraduate and graduate courses. Latha Poonamallee is Associate Professor and Chair of Management & Social Innovation at The New School, USA. Joanne Scillitoe is the inaugural Paul Jennings Chair in Entrepreneurship and a Professor of Management at California State, Northridge, USA. Simy Joy is a Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, India.
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