The September 2019 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review presented a fascinating study on why business should co-create solutions with the low-income communities (academically termed BoP which is the “Base of the Pyramid”) in developing countries rather than the traditional transfer approach that takes a patronizing white colonial guiding view on International Development (Cocreating with the Base of the Pyramid, London & Jäger 2019). I found a striking parallel between

On the corner across from the train station stands a beautiful old red-brick building - a typical Hamburg region architecture. The store taking most of the first floor is called “Glückwerk” or “Luck Factory” in English. This is my favorite store in a town called “Glückstadt” about 100km north of Hamburg. For several years, our family comes to the town in summers, visiting my husband’s family who has lived here for generations. The Luck Factory sells elegant hand-crafted souve