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Introducing the New Online Toolkit Systems Innovation – An Interactive Learning Journey

Introducing the New Online Toolkit: Systems Innovation – An Interactive Learning Journey

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Introducing AI4Resilience’s Systems Innovation Toolkit: a comprehensive online resource for innovation ecosystems. Tailored for a wide audience, it offers systems mapping, actionable advice, user-friendly templates, and more. Dive in, collaborate, and enhance your innovation journey.
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[The Business Standard] Elevate Youth Initiative of ULAB: Empowering urban humanitarian innovation

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The Elevate Youth Initiative by ULAB is a yearlong pilot programme that addresses the needs of the country’s growing youth population and their struggles with limited economic prospects, access to education and safety
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How to run a great open innovation competition? Our advice is to SCAMPER

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If you work in innovation, you probably know the acronym SCAMPER (Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to another use, and Reverse). SCAMPER is an ideation method that invites innovators to take a product or solution and turn it on its head. You can throw out ideas about how things are done currently and consider what…
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Systems-informed solutions should be our new bar, even if we’re still chasing the white whale of systems change.

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On their own, the solutions generated by innovation labs, accelerators, and competitions won’t solve complex problems. Champions of the innovation ecosystem have realized that sometimes our methods and incentives encourage individual solutions when we need partnerships and collaboration instead. Adopting a systems thinking approach with long-term planning, deep collaboration, expertise, and patience is crucial. However, these qualities…
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