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Do This, Not That: Crowdsourcing a New Blueprint for Innovation Competitions

In late October 2023, we attended the annual SOCAP Global conference, which convenes investors, entrepreneurs, and leaders across the social impact investing world to tackle today’s toughest challenges. Our delegate-led session, Learnings From Innovation Competitions: Developing Better Models for Systems-level Change, quickly set the stage on the topic before jumping into group discussions to crowd-source insights. The 24…

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

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

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.

How to run a great open innovation competition? Our advice is to SCAMPER

How to run a great open innovation competition? Our advice is to SCAMPER

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…

Systems-informed solutions should be our new bar, even if we’re still chasing the white whale of systems change.

Systems-informed solutions should be our new bar, even if we’re still chasing the white whale of systems change.

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…

Global Knowledge Initiative Publishes New Report on the Role of Innovation in Transforming Food Systems in Emerging Markets

Global Knowledge Initiative Publishes New Report on the Role of Innovation in Transforming Food Systems in Emerging Markets

Washington D.C., USA: The Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI), with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, has published a report examining how innovation can help improve food systems in emerging markets over the next 20 years. Recognizing the profound, large-scale changes happening around the world and the staggering amount of food that is lost on its way…

GKI Unveils New Resource to  Support Innovation in Global Development

GKI Unveils New Resource to Support Innovation in Global Development

For immediate release: September 15th, 2017 Improving the Ability to Make Decisions that Advance Organizational Innovation Washington D.C., USA: New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation (CITE) reveals that the approach used by many organizations to assess and adopt innovation is subpar.  Lacking are better processes to understand…