What if innovation was like epidemiology? What if we wanted to understand the source, scope, scale, and spread of an idea or product? That’s one way that we think about the innovation process. Innovation – like a virus — is similar to infectious disease epidemiology. Both of these areas look at the development of something, …
A simple set of questions can help your innovation before you start your project. You can save years of pain and problems and see beyond the fence into the pool of opportunity beyond.
Evaluation is more than just a means to measure impact; it reveals hidden value within the innovation process and destination. Evaluation is often considered to be something that is done to or of something when it is completed. This is the innovation’s destination. For some, evaluation is about understanding the process — what happens along …
Social innovation is described as a specific type of innovation that meets social goals. The Stanford Graduate School of Business defines social innovation this way: A social innovation is a novel solution to a social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than current solutions. The value created accrues primarily to society rather …
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