Welcome to BoP Service "Sustainable and user-driven innovations at the Base of the Pyramid" wiki!

This is a page to learn more and collaborate on the BoP Service project where we

 Co-create New Pilots for Base of Pyramid Markets.

Looking for new opportunities

The Kurasini neighbourhood in Dar es Salaam is being demolished. After all the building materials, bricks, pieces of wood and roofing have been collected for resale, a boy from the area is still looking for any valuable materials left. This picture is symbolic of the resilient search for opportunities in the poor neighbourhoods. (Photo by Sara Lindeman)

BoP Service: Sustainable and User-driven Innovations at the Base of the Pyramid markets

BoP Service is a project aiming at creating new business opportunities and reducing poverty through innovative business enterprise together with the low-income individuals and communities at the Base of the Pyramid. The main objectives of the project are a) to create a new user-driven network promoting innovative and sustainable business enterprise, and b) to develop generic tools for entrepreneurial co-innovation. Pilot projects are implemented together with the Finnish companies, wider civil society and other stakeholders.

More information about the BoP projects and research done by Aalto University School of Economics can be found at www.econ.aalto.fi/bop

Exploring the BoP workshop:

First inter-active workshop of the project was held on 17-18^th of January 2011 in Helsinki, Finland.

More info  here

Learning from BoP workshop:

Second international workshop on learning from user-driven innovations and entrepreneurs at the BoP was held on 24-25th of October 2011 in Nairobi, Kenya. Detailed program here

Documents and Guidebooks for BOP market:to improve

What kind of innovations, methods, how to improve, more info here

BoP Pilot Projects 

1. Mobile Business, Kenya and Vietnam. Visit the project's own page.

2. Affordable Diagnostics, India. Visit the project's own page.  

3. Textile Industry, Brazil. Visit the project's own page.   

4. Biomass Energy, Kenya. Visit the project's own page. 

5. Innovative Entrepreneurship, Afghanistan and Nepal. Visit the project's own page.    

6. mNutrition for Infant Health, India

7. Promotion and Development of Design Benefits through Business Models, Peru

8. Adapting Knowledge to Business Models,Kosovo 

http://www.cmcfinland.fi/pelastus/cmc/home.nsf/pages/EDD40D421E148573C2257937002AB626?Opendocument

Co-creation of New Pilots

More information on framework and collaboration opportunities can be seen here.

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