Program

PREVISIONAL PROGRAM – The (Mis)Fortune of Frugal Innovation

Thursday March 28^th  - Location : Grenoble INP - Génie Industriel (Salle des Conseils)

8:30 am - Opening

9:15 - Welcome - Organizing committee - Introduction

9:30 - Keynote - Ade Mabogunje  (Center for Design Research,  Stanford University) :
« Product Design, Venture Design, and Capital Formation: Building an Innovation Ecosystem in Emerging Markets »

10:15 – Break

10:30 - Working Session : Design with specific requirements?

• Moderator : E. Blanco
• J. O’Neill, N. Gupta (Xerox Research Centre Europe)
• M. Vervaart (CEA, Liten)
• C. Leconte (Grenoble INP)

12:00 – Lunch

1:30 pm - Keynote : Prabhu Kandachar (Delft University of Technology) :
« Inclusive innovation and design »

2:15 - Working Session : New partnerships, new infrastructures

• Moderator : M. Seitanidi
• L. de Clerk (Pesinet)
• N.V. Quang (IDE, Vietnam)
• M. Zouinar (Orange Lab)

3:45 – Break

4:15 - Working Session : Managing the supply chain, scaling-up. A focus on Energy System

• Moderator : T. Daudigeos
• F. Besson (Enercap)
• R. Deveaux (Schneider Electric)
• P. Robert (Electriciens Sans Frontières)

Friday March 29th  - Location : Grenoble Ecole de Management (salle C130)

9 : 00 – Session 1 - Fitting into Local Markets

Moderator : G. Watts

C. Dolan (Said Business School) :
« Inclusive Business: From 'Unusable' Economies to Bottom of the Pyramid Markets' »

C. Cholez, P. Trompette (PACTE) :  
« The basket of fish and the mobile phone : when BOP innovations encounter informal market arrangements ».

10:15 - Break

10:45 -12:00 – Session 2 – Governing frugal innovation

Moderator : J. Pinkse

A. Kapoor (Institute for Competitiveness) (Forthcoming title)

P. Knorringa (International Institute of Social Studies) :
« Economic Perspectives on Understanding Frugal Innovations in Africa »

12:00  – Lunch

1:30 pm – Session 3 – Inventing new partnerships

Moderator : G. Molecke

N. Menon (IIITB) :
« The relationship between MNEs and NGOs in catering to the bottom of the pyramid markets »

M. May Seitanidi (Kent Business School)  :
« Collaborating on the Edge. Frugal Innovation by interaction for transformation »

3:00 - Break

3:30 – Research Agenda

4:00 – Wrap up : Laurence Fontaine (Centre Maurice Halbwachs)