The document discusses the concept of reverse innovation, where innovations are developed first in developing markets and then distributed globally. It provides examples of companies innovating in emerging markets like India and China to create affordable products for those markets. GE Healthcare developed a portable and inexpensive ECG machine called MacIndia for the Indian market that costs $500, much less than their traditional $50,000 machine. A hospital in India developed extremely low-cost open heart surgery for $3,000 compared to $150,000 in the US through process innovations like standardization and economies of scale. These reverse innovations developed for emerging markets can then be distributed worldwide.