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In both academia and the press, Frugal Innovation has been gaining more space and attention from researchers and managers, mainly for showing itself as an alternative for competitiveness in times of crisis and increasingly scarce resources Despite the growing number of published articles on Frugal Innovation, there are still a lack of instruments that allow the measurement and quantification of this phenomenon in order to allow more precise and quantifiable studies to be carried out The objective of this study is to propose a measurement instrument for Frugal Innovation, presenting the preliminary results of the first steps in the process of scale development A broad review of the literature is presented, as well as an analysis of the construct dimensionality and a definition for Frugal Innovation are proposed Data were collected from 191 Brazilian companies and through the Factorial Exploratory Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory (CFA), a second order scale formed by three dimensions and composed by 9 items is presented in this first phase, together with the adjustment of all statistical indices Another collecting data was realized with 247 Brazilians firms, and another two surveys are running currently with 500 Americans and Mexicans firms for final validation of this scale.
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