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December 21, 2009 — 10:31 am
Fifteen PhD students and recent graduates that target the "next billion" as a research challenge gathered for the one-week oikos UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy 2009 in Kaubad, Switzerland from the 6th to the 11th of December, 2009. They were brought together by the oikos Foundation and UNDP's Growing Inclusive Markets.
July 7, 2009 — 09:05 am
What are the hot academic debates on how to reach out the Base of the Pyramid and "grow inclusive markets“? How can young researchers, in their PhD or early faculty life, use innovative research tools to crack these nuts? And how can they make their insights relevant for practitioners?
