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Oomens, Willem (author)
Smallholder farmers in the Shea Industry live a challenging life. From lack of economic opportunities to climate change, if they are not helped their already troubling situation will worsen. Sommalife is a social startup who strives to sustainably improve the lives of rural farmers in West Africa by helping with production, protecting lands from...
master thesis 2023
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De Marchi, Valentina (author), Pineda-Escobar, Maria A. (author), Howell, R.J. (author), Verheij, Michelle (author), Knorringa, Peter (author)
Purpose: Advance the state-of-the-art on how frugal innovation links to sustainability outcomes and based on content analysis of empirical publications in the field of frugal innovation, analyzing when and how FI is connected with social, environmental and economic outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative content analysis on empirical...
review 2022
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Janse, Bart (author)
This report describes the results of a thesis for PreMal BV, a start-up company that develops mosquito traps. It is the companies mission to capture anopheles mosquitoes before they can bite and contribute to reducing malaria transmission in Africa and other malaria zones around the world. To be able to achieve their goal, PreMal aims to...
master thesis 2020
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Grace Triana Perangin Angin, Grace (author)
1.2 billion people around the world lack access to electricity and 2.7 billion people still cook with traditional biomass (IEA, 2015). That “energy poverty” condition hinders economic and social development of the people in the base of the pyramid (BOP) of the world income. Technical solutions providing clean, affordable and reliable energy...
master thesis 2019
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Fij, Tessa (author)
The central goal of this master thesis is to improve the product communication of local SMEs in low-wage markets, by improving the advisory support given to these SMEs by BoP Innovation Center (BoPInc). BoPInc provides two-day trainings to support the SMEs on innovating their marketing and distribution. Currently, the SMEs are challenged by the...
master thesis 2019
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van Sprang, Stephanie (author)
Cooking is ubiquitous in all cultures as it is a fundamental necessity of existence. We are all sustained by food that has been transformed by heat. Cooking food helps in the digestion of nutrients while killing harmful bacteria and viruses. This basic principle of cooking food is the same over the world. However the difference lies within the...
master thesis 2017
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Kane, Justin (author)
This graduation project was initiated as the continuation of Rixt Siebinga’s thesis: “The redesign of a Solar Home System - An expandable and understandable solar home system for rural Cambodian families". During this project, her results were evaluated and additional focus topics (that defined this project's design goal) were identified. The...
master thesis 2017
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Siebinga, R. (author)
Kamworks is a social enterprise with a vision to improve access to electricity in Cambodia’s rural areas by selling solar products to the local population. Their main product, a solar home system, fulfils a household’s basic electricity needs. Creating an improved generation of solar home systems can contribute to further development of the...
master thesis 2016
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Mudde, M. (author)
An exploratory case study on the mechanisms of change in the socio-technical system based on Philips’ Community Life Center.
master thesis 2016
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Herrera Manzano, S.C. (author)
A feasible, desirable, viable and impactful business strategy with potential to bring an innovative and context-fitted value proposition (Majicast) closer to the lives of low-income people with mobility disabling conditions at BoP in Colombia though a service outreach delivery infrastructure. With this approach, a non-profit organization based...
master thesis 2015
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Kamp, L.M. (author), Ortt, J.R. (author), Harahap, B. (author)
Companies that bring a new product to the market or enter a new market with an existing product, come across a number of barriers that prevent large?scale diffusion. In order to circumvent or remove these barriers, they can adopt alternative strategies. This paper looks into these barriers and focuses on niche?strategies for innovative...
conference paper 2015
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Ibragimova, E. (author), van Boeijen, A.G.C. (author)
This paper reviews the methods and practices that reflect subconscious behaviours of people in daily lives. Cases, studied for this paper, show how practices of people living in poor settings, who are members of the base of the economic pyramid, contribute to designers, belonging to the top of the economic pyramid, in designing better products...
conference paper 2014
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Douma, A.C. (author)
This master thesis concerns the design of a market entry strategy for a hand-powered washing machine by startup HyperWash in the state of Gujarat, India. This product is to offer an affordable alternative to the backbreaking and lengthy current manual laundry practice of many low-income Gujarati housewives. By doing so it fills the gap that the...
master thesis 2014
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Da Costa Junior, J. (author), Diehl, J.C. (author)
In Emerging Markets, the product-service system (PSS) design approach may represent a promising solution as a socially and environmentally sound path to economic development. In addition, the energy sector has a major role for the social-economic development and is central to poverty alleviation. Therefore, this study aims to analyse the...
conference paper 2013
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Thapa, P. (author)
Around 4 billion people are currently living below income of $3000 a year, constituting the largest and poorest socio-economic group in the world. This group of people, termed as the Base of the Pyramid (BoP), can be a lucrative market for innovative companies due to its massive size when targeted with innovative products and appropriate...
master thesis 2013
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Jansen, A.M. (author)
This master thesis is carried out for independent research organisation TNO, who initiated the Biogas Socket project in 2008. The Biogas Socket project is part of TNO’s ‘Innovation for Development programme’, wherein high tech development and low-tech innovations contribute to stimulate economic growth and prosperity in BoP countries. This...
master thesis 2012
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Jiang, J. (author), Kandachar, P.V. (author), Freudenthal, A. (author)
Design culture is usually considered as one of the important aspects that influence designers’ decisions and actions, especially in Design for Base of the Pyramid projects including ICT Healthcare Product Design in Rural China (IHDRC). There are two research questions in this issue: what are the cultural factors and how these factors influence...
conference paper 2010
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Jiang, J. (author), Kandachar, P. (author), Freudenthal, A. (author)
Design culture is usually considered as one of the important aspects that influence designers’ decisions and actions, especially in Design for Base of the Pyramid projects including ICT Healthcare Product Design in Rural China (IHDRC). There are two research questions in this issue: what are the cultural factors and how these factors influence...
conference paper 2010
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Luistro Jonsson, M (author)
Collaborations have been the treated as the Holy Grail of sustainable solutions, regarded as a vehicle to either address social issues, transfer knowledge, legitimize institutions, and lately, to foster resilience in communities. Through exposing the complexities of collaborations in general, and the multidimensionality of resiliency and...
conference paper 2010
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Jiehui, J. (author), Kandachar, P. (author)
China has a largest population in the world (1.3Billion) and 0.9 Billion is rural population. Most of rural people earn less than US$3/day, and they are called “Base of the economic pyramid (BoP)”. Compared with high level market, BoP is a new market, which means a low individual profit, but a large population. This paper discusses the...
journal article 2008
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