Twenty-first Century Unlimited
The rise of frugal innovation and the benefits it could bring. Plus, Dame Ellen MacArthur on the circular economy and the low-cost incubator for the developing world.
New ways of doing business are making people think hard about how companies function. Peter Day travels to Paris to visit an exhibition celebrating this trend in Frugal Innovation, talks with the record breaking sailor, Dame Ellen MacArthur about her work championing the circular economy and hears from a student prize winner about his efforts to create a low-cost incubator for the developing world. How can all these small scale efforts make a big impact on the innovations of the future?
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Contributors to this programme
Navi Radjou, Curator, Wave Exhibition
Béatrice Cossa Dumurgier, BNP Paribas
Thomas Landrain President /co-founder, La Paillasse
Paul Benoit, Founder Qarnot Computing
Dame Ellen MacArthur, Founder Ellen MacArthur Foundation
James Roberts, Inventor, Mom Incubators
Broadcasts
- Thu 15 Jan 201513:05GMTBBC World Service Online
- Thu 15 Jan 201520:05GMTBBC World Service Online
- Sun 18 Jan 201501:32GMTBBC World Service Online
- Sun 18 Jan 201510:32GMTBBC World Service Online


