| dc.description.abstract | The concern for inclusive or harmonious development is being
articulated worldwide. There is a belated realisation that for extreme
affordability, there is no choice but to learn from green grassroots innovators
and traditional knowledge holders. Honey Bee Network began scouting,
spawning and sustaining innovations by knowledge rich-economically poor
people more than 20 years ago. A database of more than 140,000 ideas,
innovations and traditional knowledge practices has been pooled mainly from
500 districts of India and some other parts of the world. Blending formal and
informal science has become imperative. Several new models have been
proposed such as long tailored innovations, Kho Kho (relay) model, empathetic
innovations, inverted innovations, and grassroots to global (g2G) to illustrate
different dimension of innovations for the poor by the poor. The policy
implications of these models have been drawn briefly besides explaining the
conditions, which must be met for inclusive innovations. | |
