Scaling and growing good innovations
Jan 21, 2015
Scaling and growing good innovations
“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails,
admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Many innovations, no shortage of trying – but why are the best ones not adopted, scaled, replicated?
Is the problem resistance from incumbents?
Do the innovators/entrepreneurs just need more backing, funding, recognition?
Is the problem weak demand – commissioning, purchasing, policy?
Are the innovations promising but not proven? Do they need refinement to demonstrate impact, cost effectiveness ...?
Is there a lack of intermediary organisations to connect supply and demand? To judge what really does work ...
Growth patterns
Growth patterns
Organisational Form ChoicesWhat sort of boundaries are placed around the innovation, who’s involved, how much control etc.
Slide 9 The Young Foundation 2010
1 Prompts
2 Proposals
3 Prototypes
4 Sustaining5 Scaling
6 Systemic change
5. scaling and growth
diffusion
Subsidies for diffusion, adoption, adaptation
licensing
Brands
franchises
investment for growth – loans, equity, quasi-equity
commissioning
federations
National policy directives
professional networks/champions
growth through people
takeover
policy and programme funding
consumer advocacy
emulation
Markets for outcomes
NICE-type bodies
Are these all missing in ageing? Who owns the problem of scale where there aren’t markets?