How to involve African business in frugal innovation: Development economist André Leliveld about his new research project. Flying Blue Club Africa.

When Nokia recently presented its Asha 105 mobile phone, André Leliveld recognised a great example of ‘frugal innovation’. The € 15 mobile phone that billions of people all over the world can afford can mean a lot to Africa. Leliveld, a development economist at the African Studies Centre in the Netherlands, is setting up a scientific study on frugal innovation in Africa, together with researchers from Delft and Erasmus University and African science partners.

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