Can Limited Resources Lead To Better Innovation?
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Friday, July 17, 2015
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"When you put a limitation on resources, you remove the limitation on creativity because necessity is the mother of invention."--Navi Radjou
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Part 5 of TED Radio Hour episode Finite.
About Navi Radjou's TED Talk
Navi Radjou has spent years studying "jugaad," also known as frugal innovation. While researching emerging markets, he realized that creativity might be the most precious renewable resource.
About Navi Radjou
Navi Radjou is a champion of frugal innovation, or "jugaad" — a Hindi term meaning a cleverly improvised solution to a problem. He says that jugaad can be cheaper, smarter and use fewer resources, and that Western companies can learn from the frugal innovation developed by companies in India and China. He and his co-authors wrote the best-selling book Jugaad Innovation. His latest book is Frugal Innovation: How To Do More With Less.
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