Reading Time: 3 minutesYet innovation in rural places tends to follow a different path – focusing on improving production processes, business models or social innovations that are not uniquely profit-driven.

Reading Time: 4 minutesDespite decades of national progress, rural communities still have difficulty in accessing modern education and health services. In education, about a quarter of primary schools in the world did not have access to basic services such as electricity, drinking water and sanitation in 2020.