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Chapter 1 : Sustainable development and energy

1.1 - What is Poverty?

1.2 - Sustainable Development

1.3 - Role of Technology in Development

  • Technology and State Government. Read Bain, American Sociological Review, Vol. 2, No. 6. Dec. 1937, p. 860

1.4 - Context of Low-Income Countries

  • MIL-STD-810G Department Of Defense test method standards for Environmental Engineering Considerations and Laboratory tests. 2008  http://everyspec.com/MIL-STD/MIL-STD-0800-0899/MIL-STD-810G_12306/
  • Africa’s Infrastructure, A Time for transformation. Vivien Foster and Cecilia Bricenio-Garmendia.The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/ The World Bank. 2010.

Chapter 2: Essential Technologies

2.1 - Essential Technologies: Energy

2.2 - Essential Technologies: Water and Sanitation

2.3 - Essential Technologies: Food and Agriculture

2.4 - Essential Technologies: Information and Communication

2.5 - Essential Technologies: Transportation

2.6 - Essential Technologies: Construction

2.7 - Essential Technologies: Pharmaceuticals

Image attributions in order of appearance:

  1. Photos of Hospital and Pharmacy: Sylvain Liechti
  2. Photos of slum village: International Committee of the Red Cross

Child with Chagas - By Photo Credit: Content Providers(s): CDC/Dr. Mae Melvin - This media comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library (PHIL), with identification number #2617 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=216201.

2.8 - Essential Technologies: Medical Devices

Chapter 3: From Idea to Impact, a Methodology

3.1 - Case Study: Diagnostic X-ray Imaging

  • Radiology in global health. Daniel J. Mollura and Matthew P. Lungren, eds. Springer. 2014.

3.2 - Technology Innovation process

3.3 - The Impact Canvas

3.4 - The Impact Canvas: Using the tool

Chapter 4: Product Development Tool

4.1 - Product Value Chain: Overview

  • Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance. Michael E. Porter (1985). New York: Simon and Schuster.

4.2 - Product Value Chain: Design/Develop/Evolve

4.3 - Product Value Chain: Produce

4.4 - Product Value Chain: Market

4.5 - Product Value Chain: Distribute

4.6 - Product Value Chain: Support use

4.7 - Product Value Chain: Using the tool

Chapter 5: Business Shaping Tool

5.1 - The Sustainable Business Model Canvas: Strategy

  • Business Model Generation. Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur (2010). John Wiley and Sons, New Jersey.
  • Value Proposition Design. Osterwalder, Pigneur, Bernarda and Smith (2014). John Wiley and Sons, New Jersey.

5.2 - The Sustainable Business Model Canvas: The Compagny

5.3 - The Sustainable Business Model Canvas: The Customer

5.4 - The Sustainable Business Model Canvas: Using the tool

Chapter 6: Process Recap

6.1 - Technology Innovation Process: Concept

6.2 - Technology Innovation Process: Feasibility

6.3 - Technology Innovation Process: Implementation