http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/03/28/innovations-from-base-to-top-a-must-read Comments for "Innovations: From Base to Top, A Must-Read" en http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/03/28/innovations-from-base-to-top-a-must-read <i>From the Base (of the Pyramid) to the Top (of the Ivory Tower)</i><br /><div align="left"><a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=4&tid=65"></a></div><a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=4&tid=65"><img vspace="5" hspace="5" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.nextbillion.net/image/view/2436" /></a><br />Rarely do I get excited about academic journals. They conjure up memories of researching my undergrad political economy thesis (on political conditionality and microfinance). So when the inaugural issue of <b><a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=4&tid=65" target="_blank" title="Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization">Innovations</a></b> crossed my desk, I was naturally skeptical. Well, consider me converted – <b>Innovations</b> is a must-read for anyone interested in creative, local solutions to the world’s problems. Its content bridges the gap between ‘whatever works’ BOP practice and rigorous academic analysis. Not only that - all the articles in the current issue are available for free!<br /><br />My first clue that this was not a standard (read: boring, niche) academic journal was the list of authors for Issue 1. <a href="http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/sge/" title="Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise">Stuart Hart and Erik Simanis</a>, <a href="http://www.ashoka.org/" title="Bill Drayton">Bill Drayton</a>, <a href="http://kickstart.org/about/directors/" title="Martin Fisher">Martin Fisher</a>, <a href="http://are.berkeley.edu/~lanjouw/jlbio.htm" title="Jenny Lanjouw">Jean Lanjouw</a>, <a href="http://policy.gmu.edu/currents/volume5/issue05/a050503.htm" title="Zoltan Acs">Zoltan Acs</a> (and more) all show up here. The editors of Innovations are Philip Auerswald (GMU’s Center for Science and Technology Policy) and Iqbal Quadir (Harvard’s Center for Business and Government; founder of Grameen Phone). This list is a who’s who of base of the pyramid, social entrepreneurship, and innovation for development. I’m excited (yes, this stuff excites me).<br /><br /><br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/03/28/innovations-from-base-to-top-a-must-read">read more</a></p> http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2006/03/28/innovations-from-base-to-top-a-must-read#comment Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:04:37 -0500 Rob Katz 2437 at http://www.nextbillion.net