This blog series invites readers to rethink innovation. Rather than starting with technology or scale, it begins with people, practices, and context. It brings together:
Academic insights into frugal innovation: lessons from decades of research and the potential of frugal practices for sustainable solutions worldwide.
Cultural and philosophical perspectives on frugality: values and practices from diverse traditions, highlighting collective well-being and sustainable living.
Roots of Innovation creates a space where research meets real-world experience, and where alternative forms of knowledge and innovation can be explored and celebrated.
By Hubert Schmitz and Peter Knorringa Making economic progress sustainable has become the central issue of our time. Recent work on frugal innovation seeks to…
Text by Hans Wetzels What I am mainly interested in, is what technology does to human relations and in societies, how technology itself is formed by humans. -…
Solid waste management remains a pervasive challenge within urban spaces worldwide, inadequate collection, aggregation, and processing systems exacerbate…
Text by Hans Wetzels As in many cities around the world, rents in Berlin have risen spectacularly over the last years. After the privatization of large parts of…
Fátima Delgado is an Ecuadorian with an economic/business and sustainable sciences background who has worked with indigenous, small farmers and gender-based…
DEVISSUES; October 2023 Vol. 25 No. 2 Africa is urbanizing at an unprecedented rate, presenting unique challenges in managing and planning for urban development…
Text by Hans Wetzels Mayors are often lost within the complex institutional universe that is the EU. The European Commission (the EU’s executive branch), the 27…
Recent polls show that trust in government in the Netherlands is at an all-time low, a concrete manifestation of this phenomenon played out in Rotterdam South…
This article was written by Malika Ouacha - Lecturer & Researcher, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and originally published on the ISS Blog…
The first article in the urban series outlined some of the barriers and opportunities towards more resilient urban spaces. This article embarks on a historical…
