Biography
Peter Knorringa is a Professor of Private Sector & Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His Chair focuses on the diverse roles and impacts of business on development. He does not perceive private firms as either the ‘enemy’ or the ‘heroic deliverer’ of development. Instead, he aims to advance a more empirical and nuanced debate on where and when entrepreneurs and firms are more likely to contribute to achieving more inclusive and sustainable development.
Since 2013, Professor Knorringa is the academic director of the Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa (CFIA), a multi-disciplinary research centre that is part of the strategic alliance between Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
His present research explores the developmental impacts of frugal innovations, and builds on his previous research on clustered small and medium scale enterprises, the role of trust, networks and social capital in value chain analysis, and the role of sustainability standards.
Most of his research experience is in India and Vietnam, and he has also worked in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Russia.
International Institute of Social Studies
- knorringa@iss.nl
- Room
- I3-04
- Location
- Kortenaerkade 12, 's - Gravenhage
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Work
- Elsie K. Onsongo, Peter Knorringa & Cees van Beers (2023) - Frugal business model innovation in the Base of the Pyramid: The case of Philips Community Life Centres in Africa - Technovation, 121 - doi: 10.1016/j.technovation.2022.102675 - [link]
- Valentina De Marchi, Maria A. Pineda-Escobar, Rachel Howell, Michelle Verheij & Peter Knorringa (2022) - Frugal innovation and sustainability outcomes: findings from a systematic literature review - European Journal of Innovation Management, 25 (6), 984-1007 - doi: 10.1108/EJIM-02-2022-0083 - [link]
- Erwin van Tuijl, Mariam Basajja, Juan Carlo Intriago Zambrano & Peter Knorringa (2022) - Drivers and barriers of a platform-based business model in agriculture: The case of Apollo Agriculture - DevISSues, 24 (1), 8-10 - [link]
- Sanghamitra Chakravarty & Peter Knorringa (2021) - Enabling Inclusive Technological Change through Transformative Policies: Frugal innovations from medical device manufacturing firms in South Africa - [link]
- Elsie Onsongo & Peter Knorringa (2020) - Comparing Frugality and Inclusion in Innovation for Development: Logic, Process and Outcome - Innovation and Development - doi: 10.1080/2157930X.2020.1811931 - [link]
- CP van Beers, Peter Knorringa & AHM Leliveld (2020) - Can frugal innovations be responsible innovations? - [link]
- Jan Fransen & Peter Knorringa (2018) - Learning and Upgrading of Craft Exporters at the Interface of Global Value Chains and Innovation Systems - European Journal of Development Research, 31 (3), 530-557 - doi: 10.1057/s41287-018-0167-y - [link]
- AHM Leliveld & Peter Knorringa (2017) - Frugal Innovation and Development Research - European Journal of Development Research, 30 (1), 1-16 - doi: 10.1057/s41287-017-0121-4 - [link]
- Saradindu Bhaduri, Kinsuk Sinha & Peter Knorringa (2017) - Frugality and cross-sectoral policymaking for food security - Njas-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, 84 (March), 72-79 - doi: 10.1016/j.njas.2017.08.002 - [link]
- M Heilbron, AHM Leliveld & Peter Knorringa (2017) - Innovation as a key to success? Case studies of innovative start-ups in Kenya and Nigeria
Major GDP
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISS-GDP-22-23
Frugal Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- MINLDE-032
Global Poverty, Local Solutions
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISS-MI-8102
General Information
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISSGENERAL-23-24
4152 Development Policies and Practice
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISS-4152-23-24
Major GDP
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISS-GDP-23-24
5401 Research Paper
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISS-5401-23-24
3105 Research Paper Preparation
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISS-3105-23-24
Board of Examiners
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISS-BOE-23-24
Frugal Innovation in Practice
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- MINLDE-073