Thinking inside the box: The importance of integrating innovation and scaling within ecosystems

Watch the Recorded Webinar:

Innovation has the power to transform global development and dramatically accelerate progress, but too often great ideas fail to gain traction or get scaled up. In the past, the global development community focused on finding and supporting an innovative project or social enterprise. There is now growing recognition that systematic attention must be paid to the scaling up of successful innovations and to the broader institutional and policy ecosystem within which innovation and scaling take place. In this one hour webinar, panelists explored key ingredients for scaling what works. Questions included:

• How can one identify a suitable pathway from innovation to impact at scale?
• What are the key factors to be considered in the design, sequencing and implementation of key steps?
• What is the role of monitoring and evaluation in scaling?
• What are the most important ecosystem ingredients/enabling conditions that enable innovators to scale?
• How important is peer-to-peer learning when it comes to innovation?
• What is it like to be an innovator who wants to achieve impact at scale?
• What are the day-to-day challenges and opportunities they face?
• What can donors, global development implementers and policymakers do to better support innovation with impact at scale?

Speakers:

David de Ferranti – Chairman, Results for Development

Johannes Linn – Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings

Laura Miller – ‎Deputy Head of Programme, Can’t Wait to Learn – ‎War Child Holland

Emily Endres – Program Officer, R4D

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