“It is fascinating to read this story of pioneering innovation in low-cost, high-volume cataract surgery in the Global South, starting with the Aravind Eye Care System in India and then the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology in Nepal. And about the systemic approach, for example, including a “Robin Hood” business model. Thus, it also illuminates how alternative approaches to innovation are viable, provided the entrepreneurs take the full context into account.” (Arie Rip, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Twente, Netherlands)
“Williams’ account of “innovation from below”, here from Nepal and India to elsewhere around the globe, and in the field of ophthalmology’s cataract surgeries, is both startling and exciting. Good-bye to the imperial West-to-Rest dissemination model. Welcome to more useful strategies for charting diverse cross-national appropriations, co-optations, resistances, negotiations, and progressive transformations. A must-read for understanding today’s science and technology transitions.” (Sandra Harding, Distinguished Research Professor, Departments of Education and Gender Studies, University of California Los Angeles, USA)