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Measuring Frugality - Application to a Solar Water Distiller

This paper explores the concept of frugality to help designers in optimizing the resources needed for the design of products. A metric proposes to integrate the geographical origin of the components which participate at the achievement of the product's functions. The resulting profile gives a global notation of the frugality, and suggests ways of improvement by targeting functions that are less frugal. A case study on a solar water distiller supports the proposal in order to prove the efficiency of the methodology.

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Frugal or Fair? The Unfulfilled Promises of Frugal Innovation

Frugal innovation has become a popular buzzword among management and business scholars. However, despite its popularity, I argue that the frugal innovation literature, in its present form, is problematic for at least two reasons.

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Frugal Innovation: A review and research agenda

This study aims to review the frugal innovation literature in order to understand the main sources, theories, and overlapping concepts, as well as the input, success factors, impeding factors, and output of frugal innovations (FIs). A systematic research approach was applied in this study to synthesize the frugal innovation literature.

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Editorial: Frugal Innovation

This month’s editorial theme is Frugal Innovation, and it is my pleasure to introduce Guest Editor Deepak S. Gupta, Executive Director of Applied Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Services (ARIES) at Centennial College in Toronto, Canada, and Associate Guest Editor Mokter Hossain, Assistant Professor in the Center for Industrial Production at Aalborg University, Denmark.

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Resource Library

Measuring Frugality - Application to a Solar Water Distiller

Frugal or Fair? The Unfulfilled Promises of Frugal Innovation

Frugal Innovation: A review and research agenda

Editorial: Frugal Innovation

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