Stephanie BM Cadeddu

Presented at: Low-Cost Digital Solutions for Industrial Automation Workshop Cambridge, England - United Kingdom Oct. 01-02, 2024 ******************** Frugal Digital Transformation is a new, emerging paradigm of low-cost innovation. It integrates the concept of frugal innovation with the practices of digital transformation to allow for novel yet af...

Background: Employee-driven innovation (EDI) occurs when frontline actors in health organizations use their firsthand experience to spur new ideas to transform care. Despite its increasing prevalence in health organizations, the organizational conditions under which EDI is operationalized have received little scholarly attention. Methods: This scop...

The magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic challenged societies around our globalized world. To contain the spread of the virus, unprecedented and drastic measures and policies were put in place by governments to manage an exceptional health care situation while maintaining other essential services. The responses of many governments showed a lack of pr...

While the transition toward digitalized health care and service delivery challenges many publicly and privately funded health systems, patients are already producing a phenomenal amount of data on their health and lifestyle through their personal use of mobile technologies. To extract value from such user-generated data, a new insurance model is em...

The World Health Organization and other institutions are considering Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a technology that can potentially address some health system gaps, especially the reduction of global health inequalities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, because most AI-based health applications are developed and implemented i...

Considering the current COVID-19 pandemic context, within which many disruptive innovations can surface, from the most useful to the most dangerous, the time is ripe for the emergence of grassroot actions and frugal innovations. The inadequacy of health infrastructure, medical supplies, health professionals and technologies have given rise to local...

UNSTRUCTURED While the transition toward digitalized health care and service delivery challenges many publicly and privately funded health systems, patients are already producing a phenomenal amount of data on their health and lifestyle through their personal use of mobile technologies. To extract value from such user-generated data, a new insuranc...

This paper defines and summarises the contemporary concept of Frugal Innovation. As a novel approach to address market-shaping, investment and supply, Frugal Innovation is highly relevant to developing and developed countries or regions, particularly in resource-constrained environments. Frugal Innovation has a close relationship with disruptive mo...

This chapter explores the frugal innovation practices of an Indonesian start-up developing a health innovation targeting Base-of-the-Pyramid and middle markets. Looking specifically from a new product development process lens, this case study provides insights into a frugal innovator’s decision-making dilemmas, tools and techniques, for developing...

This chapter outlines the utilisation of frugal innovation theory within the development of the ‘Geldom’ project – the production of a novel synthetic material condom. It demonstrates how a team leverages evolving frugal innovation models to create a significant shift in manufacturing, development and creation of more widely adopted health products...

Foreign direct investment is considered an important driver of economic development, particularly through its potential transfer of knowledge, know-how and technology to host countries which may enable industrial or economic upgrading. This study explores the internationalisation process of a technological-intensive Multinational Enterprise (MNE) a...