Allen L. Hammond, William J. Kramer, Robert S. Katz, Julia T. Tran, and Courtland Walker The Next 4 Billion In an informal suburb of Guadalajara, Mexico, a growing family is struggling to expand its small…
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Michael Chu Commercial Returns at the Base of the Pyramid More than three decades after its birth as a quixotic initiative in Latin America and Asia to bring financial products to the poor, modern microfinance…
Boru Douthwaite
Boru Douthwaite Enabling Innovation Technology- and System-Level Approaches that Capitalize on Complexity Making innovation happen is central to what many engineers do. However, when we finish our training most of us believe that it is…
Allison Macfarlane
Allison Macfarlane Is It Possible To Solve The Nuclear Waste Problem? Innovations Case Discussion: Siting of Eurajoki Nuclear Waste Facility With the issuance of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in February 2007…
Klaus Schwab and Pamela Hartigan
Klaus Schwab and Pamela Hartigan Social Innovators with a Business Case Facing 21st Century Challenges One Market at a Time If there is one thing about which public and corporate leaders around the world today…
Yochai Benkler
Yochai Benkler Commons-Based Agricultural Innovation Innovations Case Discussion: CAMBIA-BiOS Computation and access to existing scientific research are important in the devel- opment of any nation, yet both still operate at a remove from the most…
Sara Boettiger and Brian D. Wright
Sara Boettiger and Brian D. Wright Open Source in Biotechnology: Open Questions Innovations Case Discussion: CAMBIA-BiOS The case narrative by Richard Jefferson in this issue of Innovations shows how the rate and direction of progress…
Richard Jefferson
Richard Jefferson Science as Social Enterprise The CAMBIA BiOS Initiative Nearly four billion people live on daily incomes lower than the price of a latté at Starbucks. Most of them make dramatically less than that—and…
Keith E. Maskus
Keith E. Maskus Reforming U.S. Patent Policy Getting the Incentives Right The U.S. patent system comes under much criticism these days. In a lightning-rod case, the maker of the popular BlackBerry communication device, Research in…