Abstract
This study aims to provide valuable insights into the process of innovation for development. We selected the “Reinvent the Toilet Challenge”, an initiative of the Gates Foundation, with the objective of creating sustainable sanitation solutions for the 2.5 billion people across the globe who lack access to safe and affordable sanitation. The Naturally Acceptable and Technologically Sustainable (NATS) team at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand was appointed by the Gates Foundation to serve as an innovative fecal sludge management (FSM) hub in Southeast Asia and collaborate with other researchers in the region, as well as with other teams from around the world to develop innovative FSM techniques that can help to solve the world sanitation problem. By gaining insights into how innovators interact with key stakeholders, we can understand the process of innovation for development and the role of innovation brokers in the innovation process, and then suggest a roadmap from the perspective of responsible research and innovation (RRI) to guide innovators, project leaders, industry partners, local government, and policy makers in the process of innovation for development.
Highlights
There has been a growing recognition of the valuable role that fresh ideas and innovation can play across a range of development challenges
The Gates Foundation has applied the concept of open innovation [1] as a means of discovering innovations and inventions with the potential to support the creation of a fairer world in which everyone enjoys the same opportunities for a healthy and productive life
Foundation that is committed to supporting the development of innovative products and policies designed to eliminate barriers to economic opportunity, empower individuals to escape from poverty, and provide sustainable and inclusive growth for the benefit of all
Summary
There has been a growing recognition of the valuable role that fresh ideas and innovation can play across a range of development challenges. The granting agencies will typically support proof of concept work for a new idea, and in some cases, will help to translate the concept onto an industry scale. The recipients of these grants include academics, NGOs, start-ups, and social enterprises. Jacobs and Snijders [14] described the innovation The process as a step-by-step to selecting developing them and innovation process isapproach a term that describesconcepts, the various steps involved in evencontually transforming themmarketable into new innovations. Jacobs and Snijders [14] that described the innovation asfollow a step-by-step to selecting concepts, developing and developedprocess typically a processapproach of generating ideas, exploring possibilitiesthem and ideneventually transforming them new innovations.
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