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Frugality and jugaad in science: evidence from a research laboratory

In: Handbook on Frugal Innovation

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  • Pankaj Sekhsaria

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This chapter is located at the intersection of three axes that have not yet been explored in academic literature: frugal innovation, jugaad and the scientific laboratory. It offers a multi-layered and cross-sectional exploration in establishing a relationship between frugal innovation and the lab via the concept of jugaad, a contextual and language-embedded form of innovation that is prominent across large parts of the Indian subcontinent. The author argues that the increasingly interchangeable use of jugaad and frugal innovation is problematic. It offers a set of characterizations that show the overlaps and the prominent divergences between the two and makes a case for a more normative use and mobilization of the idea of frugality. Following an interpretive schema of things, the chapter concludes by suggesting that frugal innovation can indeed be seen in the case of the laboratory, but that this is contingent on the choices made and a particular configuration of the empirical reality.

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  • Pankaj Sekhsaria, 2023. "Frugality and jugaad in science: evidence from a research laboratory," Chapters, in: Handbook on Frugal Innovation, chapter 17, pages 249-261, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:18314_17
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