Dr. Elsie Osongo
Director of Nuvoni Centre for Innovation Research
Dr Elsie Onsongo is the Director of Nuvoni Centre for Innovation Research, which hosts the International Centre for Frugal Innovation – Kenya Hub. Her research interests relate to innovation for inclusive development in sub-Saharan Africa, with a current focus on frugality, inclusion and sustainability in energy access, health care, and urban development. She adopts a multidisciplinary approach in her analysis of innovation, combining perspectives from evolutionary economics, science and technology studies, and organisational studies.
Elsie has a PhD from the ‘Economics of Innovative Change’ a programme jointly offered by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Germany. She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and has been a visiting research fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK. She has worked at Strathmore University in Kenya in various teaching, research and administrative capacities.
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