Getting innovative products to rural communities
Universities like MIT have produced a number of innovative products for people in low-resource communities around the world. But in order for those products to make an impact, they have to be manufactured at scale, get through local supply chains, and, most importantly, make enough of an impression that people actually want to buy them. All of those challenges can erode the economics of deploying new products and ultimately limit their adoption. For the last 11 years, the MIT...