Conferences on frugal innovation
- Mar 9
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Updated: May 6
2025 ACMIS "Intelligent Technologies for a Better Future”
Ahuja, Jain & Cadeddu 2025, Frugal Digital Transformation in SMEs: Low-cost solutions for high-impact outcomes (see link)
Frugal Digital Transformation integrates the concept of frugal innovation with the practices of digital transformation to allow for novel, yet affordable and impactful innovations in products, services, processes, platforms, and business models. This paper highlights frugal digital transformation in the context of three SMEs in the U.K., Canada, and India, explaining how SMEs conduct frugal digital transformation. It sheds light on the underlying digital mechanisms and business processes that enable transformation. This research provides insights to practitioners about the benefits and pitfalls of this type of innovation. It also lays a foundation for future research in this domain.
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2022 R&D management conference
The planet is faced with resource scarcity and economic constraints, so we organized a conference track exploring how frugal innovation and digital technologies intersect to brings balance and sobriety to the current consumption-driven and growth-driven narratives that are predominant.
Frugal innovation can contribute to developing affordable, sustainable, and digitally enabled solutions while addressing major societal challenges such as resource scarcity and inequality. However there are detractors, with criticism that ‘frugal’ is another consumption-driven paradigm of innovation. The track aimed to uncover the hidden conceptual intersections between frugal innovation and other emerging phenomena and movements. This includes responsible innovation, sobriety, low-tech solutions, ecological transitions, social justice and the circular economy.
