InnoFrugal Association
Our mission is the creation of sustainable economic growth via co-creating good quality, accessible, affordable, and sustainable solutions
Who we are
InnoFrugal (previously The Nordic Frugal Innovation Society), started in 2013, is the world’s first non-profit to focus exclusively on Frugal Innovation.
Mission
We will be a platform that provides timely knowledge, networks, frameworks, and partnerships, in the broad field of Frugal Innovation, to policymakers, businesses, and organizations in the public and private sector in the Nordic Countries, Europe, and Emerging Markets.
Vision
By 2030, we want to be the organization that will have been an essential instrument for Frugal Innovation ideas and implementations in the Nordic Countries and Emerging Markets to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Values
Our five core values are innovation, diversity, responsibility, sustainability, and integrity.
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EU Funded FRANCIS Project
InnoFrugal is the Communication & Dissemination Manager for the FRANCIS – Frugal innovation by Citizens for Citizens project that receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
FRANCIS’ consortium includes seven partners from six European countries. Fraunhofer from Germany, VTT from Finland will provide scientific support. The Finnish non-profit organization InnoFrugal, The Behavioural Insights Team from the United Kingdom, the French tech startup Agorize and two industrial enterprises, HELIOZ from Austria and Turkey’s BSH Home Appliances, are involved in the project.
InnoFrugal Conference
Join Our 9th Annual Innofrugal Conference between May 10 – 11, 2023.
At InnoFrugal 2023 our program agenda will focus on leveraging AI For Impact, Circular Economy, Open Innovation, and Impact Investing to look at how we can deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals to create a sustainable and inclusive future for all.
Highlight Panel – Our Horizon 2020 EU funded FRANCIS project on how Bosch Siemens (BSH) and Helioz are using open innovation to create frugal innovations and an affordable solution portfolio.
More With Less Podcast
To understand the huge global challenge of sustainable growth and to find solutions to it, More With Less Podcast with Venkata and Jaideep, features conversations with leading business leaders, consultants, entrepreneurs, investors, climate activists, and social impact activists.
The podcast is hosted by
Venkata Gandikota – Co-founder of Innofrugal and works with startups, businesses, R&D organizations, policy makers and non profits concerning Impact investing, Frugal innovation and Circular economy and Jaideep Prabhu – Professor of Marketing, Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise, and Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
We support initiatives and projects which:
It is our mission to reduce inequality via sustainable economic growth.
About Us
InnoFrugal is a Finnish non profit association
We want businesses to respond to limitations in resources; whether financial, material or institutional, and turn these constraints into innovative ideas and practical solutions.
Activities
InnoFrugal organizes many different types of activities. We are involved in creating long-term programs using “Systems Thinking” and “Design Thinking” benefiting emerging economies as well as the developed world in many different areas.
About Us
InnoFrugal is a Finnish non profit association
We at The Nordic Frugal Innovation Society want businesses to respond to limitations in resources; whether financial, material or institutional, and turn these constraints into innovative ideas and practical solutions.
Activities
InnoFrugal organizes many different types of activities. We are involved in creating long-term programs using “Systems Thinking” and “Design Thinking” benefiting emerging economies as well as the developed world in many different areas.
