While intellectual property has long been perceived as a method for protecting, and ultimately valuing, innovation, it is an imperfect measure. With its traditional bias in favor of innovation as delimited by Western views of individuality and technological progress, intellectual property is not...

This paper explores diffusion patterns of frugal innovations. Frugal innovation refers to products or services that are affordable, easy-to-use, and innovated under conditions of resource scarcity. When such innovations migrate from resource-scarce contexts to developed countries they are termed...