Current Projects

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Under the auspices of the overall Research Programme Global Innovation we currently focus on the following major research areas:

• Globalization of R&D
  
  
• Lead Markets
  
  
• Grassroot Innovations
  
  
• The Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP)
  
  
• Frugal Innovations
  
  
• Emerging Market Multinationals

Our research in these areas is generally based on several studies constantly underway at our institute, often in cooperation with partners from the industry, academia and/or government agencies. Currently following studies are running/planned at our institute which are conceptualized in a way so that they often contain elements of more than one research area mentioned above.

• Factors affecting Frugal Innovation in Developed Countries (Timo Weyrauch)
  
  
• User innovations in an emerging country in the area of flood resilience (Daniel Kruse)
  
  
• Untersuchung der (technologischen) Innovationspfade in der Automobilbranche (Rajnish Tiwari with Florian Redl)
  
  
• Frugal Innovations in the Japanese Context: Opportunities & Challenges of Affordable Excellence (Rajnish Tiwari in cooperation with Masaharu Tsujimoto of Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  
  
• Affordable excellence in the United States: Examining the scope for frugal Innovations (Rajnish Tiwari)
  
  
• German consumers' penchant for frugal solution: A meta-level examination based on longitudinal data (Rajnish Tiwari)
  
  
• A cross-country analysis of socio-cultural context factors for acceptance of frugal solutions (Rajnish Tiwari)
  
  
• Intercultural competences and the role of culture in professional interaction: Examples from Japan (Rajnish Tiwari)
  
  
• How relevant is the Hofstede model in today's global world? An assessment based on a survey of students of intercultural management and communication (Rajnish Tiwari)
  
  
• Potenziale, Herausforderungen und gesellschaftliche Relevanz frugaler Innovationen im Kontext des globalen Innovationswettbewerbs (ein BMBF/ITA-gefördertes Projekt in Kooperation mit Fraunhofer-MOEZ) (Rajnish Tiwari with Katharina Kalogerakis at TUHH)
  
  
• Indian Investments in Germany: Human Resources as Success Factor or Impediment (Rajnish Tiwari)
  
  
• Early Identification of Emerging Lead Markets: An Examination of Selected Automobile Markets in Developing Economies (Rajnish Tiwari)
  
  
• Frugal innovation in healthcare: A study based on patent analysis (Rajnish Tiwari with Mithun Kumar Jayavarthanavelu)
  
  
• Role of frugal approaches in space programs: What lessons can we learn from India's Mangalyaan? (Rajnish Tiwari with Jakob Scheitza)
  
  
• Innovation strategy of leading German auto parts suppliers in India: What do patent data tell us? (Rajnish Tiwari with Aravind Chinchure and Sebastian Cremer)
  
  
• Role and need for frugaity and frugal solutions in India's healthcare market (Rajnish Tiwari with Asif Ismail Ansar Ali)
  
  
• Frugal financial solutions? Analyzing the need, scope and policies in India for financial inclusion (Rajnish Tiwari with Ashish Pattanayak)
  
  
• Kenya vs. India? Analyzing the lead market potential for mobile payment solutions (Kai Potters in cooperation with Cees van Beers, Bert Enserink, Bauke Steenhuisen from TU Delft; and with Rajnish Tiwari)
  

A list of completed projects and study results (if published) can be found here.

Our research is not exclusively focussed on a single region, the research project pays special attention to emerging R&D locations such as India and China as well as to Germany and the European Union (EU).

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