This document discusses fostering innovation through frugality. It suggests that frugality can manifest in form, features, and functions through approaches like: - Developing low-cost, modular solutions that allow adding features over time - Designing products for circularity, affordability, durability, and multi-functionality - Pursuing reciprocal open innovation to share ideas across sectors Frugality is presented as a way to do more with less through grassroots innovation, adapting existing technologies, and meeting needs in novel ways. Nurturing frugal ideas involves incubation approaches like strategic trials and user-led modifications.

1. Fertilizing Imagination
From Information to Innovation
Anil K Gupta

2. Information/Knowledge/Wisdom
Innovation Playground
Inside out
High Low
High
Low
DBDB Sponge
Pollinator ostrich
Outside in
Dil bada dimaag bada

3. Ostrich
_
• In breeding- NIH (not invented here)
• Indifferent routinized
• High inertia
• Reason-Ready for Status quo
+
• Introspection
• Talk with-in
• Cycles of isolation necessary to hear own voice
S o l i t u d e

4. Serving clients with
Old tools, new needs
Inertia
How much, how long

5. Multiple destinies of a cobbler
mongolia china
kabul
Kuchh bhi to
nahin badla

6. Pollinator
• Creating public goods
• Sharing asymmetrically
• Connecting lost souls
• Value harnessing by seeding ideas in right niches

7. niche

8. Innovation
Sponge- Osmosis
• Sink of Ideas
• Source
• Competition
• Conventional Open Innovation
• Seek
crowd
Clients
Strangers expert
Known expert
Sustain- spawn
Disconnect

9. DBDB: Reciprocal Innovation
Two way learning
Four way
Top
Bottom
Horizontal Flow
Verticalflow
Inside Outside

10. Seek-Spread-Collaborate-Sense
Learning Tangent

11. Will these Opportunities be missed?
• Linkage with small clients
• Diversity vs density
• Fortune in the fragmented markets
• Falling is not failing: fun to fail but learn
• Sandboxing ideas vs fish-netting innovations

12. Learning platforms
from concrete to abstract
1) Artefactual - replication of similar design
2) Analogic - metaphor to inspire
3) Heuristic - models of thinking
4) Gestalt - configurational of factors
Gupta, 2012, Own compilation
Four levels of learning

13. creativity, compassion, communication and collaboration
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Honey Bee Network
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Autopoiesis : improving designs
through use, self-design, learning
as one grows
creativity, compassion,
communication and

14. grains, nine
neighbours,
nurturin g
networks

15. CREATING open source PUBLIC STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE

16. Frugal budget make stilt roots as
natural ladders

17. • Lot more with lot less but much richer
tapestry

18. Meghalaya
Technology is like
words,
institutions are
like grammar
and culture is like
thesaurus

19. NATURE IS MOST FRUGAL
• PARSIMONIOUS NATURE
• PERCEPTIVE INSTITUTIONS
• RESPONSIBLE CULTURES
• NETWORKED FORMAL AND INFROMAL
KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
• CULTURE, VALUES, TECHNOLOGY AND
INSTITUTIONS

20. Frugality is flexible
Frugality is friendly
Frugality is extremely
•Value chain redesign,
• reciprocal open innovation platform
Circular Economy

21. Needs can be
fashioned
Microsoft puts say 500 features in a word processing
software, out of which most of us use 50 features, and yet
we pay for all the 500
Most cell phones have the same problem

22. Stack up approach:
• Begin with a low cost, no frill model, and add
additional modules as per ones wish and
affordable bracket
• Modular design also helps in changing only
the damaged module rather than the whole
machine or solution

23. Frugality has to
manifest
in three dimensions
Form
Feature
Function
DHRUV: GANDHINAGAR,
A REFRIGERATOR WHICH GIVES MORE

24. Material
Old new
method
Old
New
Use or
applications
old
New
FRUGAL OR GRASSROOOTS Innovation: at least one of the three

25. Form, feature and function
CIRCULARITY AFFORDABILITY
DURABILITY/
RENEWABILITY/
MULTI-
FUNCTIONALITY

26. FRUGAL SUPPLY-CHAIN
ACCESSIBILITY AVAILABILITY
AFFORDABILITY/
reliable

27. IS FRUGALITY RELEVANT ONLY FOR
POOR?
- DEMATERIALIZATION
- PLANNED RENEWABILITY
- EACH COMPONENT TO HAVE
FATIGUE FACTOR IMPRINTED
- MARKET FOR USING PARTS WITH
UNTAPPED ENERGY LEFT, TO DELAY
ENTROPY
- SUSTAINBILITY IS THE SOUL OF
FRUGALITY

28. Sanctuary versus incubation
approach to nurture frugal innovations

29. Making strategic breakthroughs
incremental innovations, adaptive trials,
user-led modifications. , incubation
R & D with external experts, new
actors and new arrangements
Product Development,
amplify the
form, features and functions
Paradigmatic
disruption, discontinuity and non-
parameteric approaches , sanctuary
model
Known
Known
Unknown
Unknown
Domain characteristics
Technologicalplatforms

30. Knowledge Management
Mind
Mapping
Mind
Tapping
Fear
Capping

31. Falling is not failure
Learning across domains

32. Cross-pollination through techpedia.in

33. Intra-preneurship through internal
angel funds

34. Future proofing by not being just
better but being different
Picking holes
in the sky

35. David and Goliath
In major wars among opponents with
one at least ten times bigger than
another, David won 71 percent times
over Goliath

36. Flying into the arms of future
clinging to a straw in the wind
rpwcedences are aprison in which medicres trap themsleves
Precedences are the prison in which mediocre trap themselves