the central economic and social role of the informal sector is increasingly appreciated. Yet while evidence shows that informal entrepreneurs can drive innovation, research on innovation in developing countries has been devoted mostly to formal sectors, organizations and institutions. What is...

This chapter explores how innovation is appropriated in the informal sector. It contributes new knowledge to this field in three ways. First, it solidifies a new interdisciplinary conceptual framework for looking at intellectual property (IP) and other appropriation strategies in the informal...