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Navi Radjou: “Frugal innovation creates more economic and social value while using minimum resources”

Red Social Innovation team meets Navi Radjou. An innovation thinker who grew up in Pondicherry, in India. French on his father’s side, an officer in the French Navy, he left India to study business computing at École Centrale de Paris, in France, focusing his research on Open Information Systems and frugal innovation. “For decades, ingenious […]

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