<i>Jugaad</i>as systemic risk and disruptive innovation in India

Thomas Birtchnell · 2011 · Contemporary South Asia

Summary. Jugaad, the Indian practice of improvising solutions with limited resources, is celebrated as disruptive innovation and a development tool. This paper argues the opposite: jugaad reflects systemic poverty, poor infrastructure, and unsafe practices that perpetuate India's underlying risks. Rather than an exportable asset, jugaad masks deeper structural problems and should not be separated from the conditions that necessitate it.

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  title   = {<i>Jugaad</i>as systemic risk and disruptive innovation in India},
  author  = {Thomas Birtchnell},
  journal = {Contemporary South Asia},
  year    = {2011},
  doi     = {10.1080/09584935.2011.569702},
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DOI

10.1080/09584935.2011.569702

Countries

India

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Asia

Categories

innovation-theory, policy, general-innovation

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