Transformative innovations start with the social and political, not technology hardware and finance: lessons from Lighting Africa and MECS

Transformative innovations start with the social and political, not technology hardware and finance: lessons from Lighting Africa and MECS Transformative innovations start with the social and political, not technology hardware and finance: lessons from Lighting Africa and MECS Key messages Introduction 1. [...] Successful interventions and technological change, grounded in foreground the social and political the context of low-income countries and dimensions of innovation and the lived realities of poor and technological change. [...] 1 The problem with 2D hardware financing interventions Interventions that aim to increase people’s access to clean technologies in the Global South have traditionally only acted on two dimensions of the problem, namely technological hardware and the finance to pay for this. [...] Accumulated investment shares to understand the lived realities of poor through the CDM Jan 2015, Source: Authors people and their current consumption of based on cdmpipeline.org energy services, like lighting and cooking; and using this as a basis for the 2 innovation in technologies and finance can happen at village, regional, national that. [...] Success stories The political dimension of from the OECD, Asian Tiger Economies and Kenya can be explained by innovation and technological processes of building and strengthening change innovation systems.