Lead Market India

1. India’s Emergence as a Lead Market for Frugal Innovations: An Introduction to the Theme and to the Contributed Volume
Cornelius Herstatt, Rajnish Tiwari

Part I. Connecting India to Frugal Innovations and Lead Market

2. Frugal Innovation: An Assessment of Scholarly Discourse, Trends and Potential Societal Implications
Rajnish Tiwari, Luise Fischer, Katharina Kalogerakis

3. Frugality in Indian Context: What Makes India a Lead Market for Affordable Excellence?
Rajnish Tiwari

Part II. Connecting Frugal Innovations to Grassroots and the Bottom of the (Economic) Pyramid

4. Emerging Patterns of Grassroots Innovations: Results of a Conceptual Study Based on Selected Cases from India
Anup Karath Nair, Rajnish Tiwari, Stephan Buse

5. Consumer Innovation in the Poor Versus Rich World: Some Differences and Similarities
Sarah Praceus, Cornelius Herstatt

6. Lessons from Low-Cost Healthcare Innovations for the Base-of the Pyramid Markets: How Incumbents Can Systematically Create Disruptive Innovations
Aditi Ramdorai, Cornelius Herstatt

Part III. Connecting Frugal Innovations with Analogies and Disruption

7. Developing Frugal Innovations with Inventive Analogies: Preliminary Evidence from Innovations in India
Rajnish Tiwari, Katharina Kalogerakis, Cornelius Herstatt

8. Made in India for the World: An Empirical Investigation into Novelty and Nature of Innovations
Daniel Tobias Hagenau, Rajnish Tiwari

Part IV. Actual Practices of Frugal Innovations

9. India’s Electronic Voting Machines: Social Construction of a Controversy Surrounding a Frugal Innovation
Maximilian Herstatt, Cornelius Herstatt

10. Renewable Energy in India: Policies, Trends and Foreign Direct Investments in Research and Development
Aditya Prasad Bhagwat, Rajnish Tiwari

11. Commercial Vehicle Industry in India: An Investigation of the Innovation and Business Trends (2000–2015)
Rajnish Tiwari, Bhimsen Dattatraya Phadnis

Keywords: Business and Management, Innovation/Technology Management, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Business Strategy/Leadership, R & D/Technology Policy