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COVID-19 Innovation in Low and Middle-Income Countries: Lessons for Development Co-operation



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https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/development/covid-19-innovation-in-low-and-middle-income-countries_19e81026-en
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1787/19e81026-en
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Type: 
journal article
Journal: 
OECD Development Policy Papers
Number: 
39
Author(s): 
Ramalingam, B.
Kumpf, B.
Description: 

This paper discusses innovation in low and middle-income countries, focusing on the role it has played in local and national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the lessons from this effort for how innovation might be harnessed to address wider development and humanitarian challenges by mobilising resources, improving processes, catalysing collaboration and encouraging creative and contextually grounded approaches. The paper also examines how international development and humanitarian organisations can improve their support for local and national innovation efforts.

Publication year: 
2021
Keywords: 
Frugal Innovation
SDGs
Innovation ecosystems
Innovation
grassroots innovation
Social Entrepreneurship
innovation policy
International development