New York/Johannesburg — Potential of casual family innovation on the African continent revealed
The primary ever survey on casual innovation on the African continent utilizing the von Hippel & de Jong mannequin of family innovation reveals a million casual innovators exist in South Africa whose exercise was invisible earlier than this analysis was performed.
In joint analysis known as “Making the Invisible Seen: Casual Innovation in South Africa“, the UNDP Accelerator Labs, Utrecht College, the College of Johannesburg and the MIT Sloan Faculty of Administration present the extent to which grassroots innovators are fixing native issues in South Africa and addressing their family wants. It’s the first analysis utilizing internationally comparable strategies into family innovation performed on the African continent, permitting benchmarking throughout nations, and serving to to fill a significant analysis hole in understanding casual innovation in Africa.
The analysis discovered that the speed of casual innovation in South Africa (2.5%) will not be as excessive because the Netherlands (6.2%) and the UK (6.1%), however greater than South Korea (1.5%) and China (2.1%), indicating the immense untapped potential of on-the-ground innovation on the continent.
On the subject of sharing and rising these improvements, South African innovators unfold their innovations and concepts twice as a lot in comparison with friends within the World North. The examine exhibits that over 50% of the casual improvements in South Africa are straight shared with friends, and over 10% are commercialized (in different nations that is often 25% and 5%).
The analysis attracts from almost 1,100 surveys and 26 in-depth interviews to explain casual innovation and the way it spreads, characterize casual enterprise possession and the way it might help disseminate casual improvements, define key parts of an off-the-cuff innovation and enterprise ecosystem, and recommend context-appropriate coverage prescriptions.
Innovation can play a crucial position in tackling tough growth challenges in Africa–from discovering cleaner and cheaper cooking strategies to extending credit score to casual merchants. The potential for casual innovation and entrepreneurship to ship novel options affordably and accessibly has been underexplored till now.
Attend the launch occasion Wednesday July 19, 2023 at 9:00AM – 10:15AM ET, 3:00pm – 4:14PM SAST: https://undpacclabs.com/InformalInnovation
Entry the report: https://www.undp.org/acceleratorlabs/publications/informalinnovationresearch
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The United Nations Growth Programme (UNDP) is the main United Nations group combating to finish the injustice of poverty, inequality, and local weather change. Working with our broad community of specialists and companions in 170 nations, we assist nations to construct built-in, lasting options for individuals and the planet. In 2019, UNDP got down to construct the world’s largest and quickest studying community on depraved sustainable growth challenges. Co-built as a three way partnership with the Federal Ministry for Financial Cooperation and Growth of Germany and the Qatar Fund for Growth, the UNDP Accelerator Labs Community is overlaying 115 nations, and tapping into native improvements to create actionable insights and reimagine sustainable growth for the twenty first century.
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