http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/14011 Fri, 15 May 2026 12:49:21 GMT 2026-05-15T12:49:21Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/14037 Guest Editorial Régnier, Philippe This Journal of Entrepreneurship (JoE) special issue focuses on the central question of whether so-called appropriate/frugal technology research and innovation can lead to various forms of entrepreneurship in order to propose and implement concrete solutions meeting community, local and even national and global sustainability development challenges. Such solutions can be forged by private and public actors, including public–private partnerships among so-called developed, emerging and developing countries. The very concept of this special issue is inspired by an Edward Elgar Publishing Handbook of Innovation and Appropriate Technologies for International Development issued in the fall of 2022. This handbook is co-edited by Philippe Régnier and Pascal Wild (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland/HES-SO) together with eminent colleagues at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-Madras, Chennai, India), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Boston, USA) and Polytechnique Montreal (Montreal, Canada). Through 17 chapters, the handbook delivers a detailed overview of how the mid-twentieth-century Gandhian concept of appropriate technology and know-how for improving living conditions of grassroot people and communities has evolved over time from its early diffusion from India to the developing world at large. It experienced wide transformations led by the rise of emerging countries since the 1980s–90s, lately combined with the twenty-first-century global digitalisation era. Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/14037 2023-11-23T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/14036 Editorial Shukla, Sunil This special issue of the Journal of Entrepreneurship explores the relationship between frugal and appropriate technology, entrepreneurship and sustainability challenges at the community, local, national and global levels. Technology that offers sustainable solutions to entrepreneurial problems with locally developed methods, tools, ideas or practices can be called Appropriate Technology. The idea of appropriate technology, rooted in the mid-twentieth century anti-colonial campaign in India led by Gandhi, rejected the modern mass-production technology in favour of local, indigenous and sustainable technology for the people. Appropriate Technology has evolved over the current century into a global movement as an alternative to capital-intensive and high-tech strategies and, in the process, has transformed innovation and entrepreneurship, especially in the Global South. It has emerged as a viable alternative to the destructive impact of modern technology on culturally rooted traditional modes of small-scale production, emphasising accessibility, frugality and simplicity. Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/14036 2023-11-23T00:00:00Z