Co-development, innovation and mutual learning – or how we need to turn the world upside down

Abstract

This paper describes the scope for mutual learning and the sharing of innovation between different parts of the world. It argues that the top-down concept of international development – with its connotations that low income countries need to develop in ways that emulate progress in richer more “developed” ones needs to be replaced with the idea of co-development and learning and sharing together. Similarly, it advocates for replacing the term of “reverse innovation” with the concept of global sourcing of innovation.