02125nas a2200193   4500008004100000022001400041245006600055210006500121260004200186300000900228490000600237520155300243653002201796653002501818653001301843653001901856100001901875856003701894       2018                        eng d  a1927-032100aFrugal or Fair? The Unfulfilled Promises of Frugal Innovation0 aFrugal or Fair The Unfulfilled Promises of Frugal Innovation  aOttawabTalent First Networkc04/2018  a6-130 v83 aFrugal innovation has become a popular buzzword among management and business scholars. However, despite its popularity, I argue that the frugal innovation literature, in its present form, is problematic for at least two reasons. First, the frugal innovation literature assumes that scarcity is a normal condition of the “Global South”. In this article, I show that this assumption neglects the fact that scarcity can be socially constructed to deny certain social sectors the access to resources essential for their flourishing. Second, despite all the good intentions underpinning the idea of “alleviating poverty”, frugal innovation studies rarely challenge, or even discuss, the causes of destitution and social exclusion. Innovation, as well as technology, is overwhelmingly framed in an agnostic and neutral way that sidelines the socio-economic complexity of the exclusion mechanisms that cause poverty and underdevelopment. By ignoring this, the frugal innovation literature risks limiting the understanding of the problems it seeks to solve and, most importantly, it risks limiting its impact. Most frugal innovation literature, in other words, seems to elude the fact that, rather than being a mere lack of resources or technology, poverty is a matter of social justice. In order to be empowering, technology has to be value-based, normative framed, socially controlled, and democratically debated. In this article, I propose that we should use these principles to develop a new wave of frugal innovation literature and practice. 10afrugal innovation10ainclusive innovation10ascarcity10asocial justice1 aPansera, Mario  uhttp://timreview.ca/article/1148