1. Innovation Scaling for “Soft” Products TechCon 2013

2. Scaling Q: What do you get when you cross a mountain climber with a mosquito? A: You can’t the Mosquito is a Vector and the Mountain Climber is a Scalar What does it take to bring a innovation from idea to having a positive impact on millions of people? Investment Policy Mentoring Partners

3. Scaling as Innovation Transfer What due diligence is necessary to transfer innovation from one geography/culture to another? Gender Cultural competence/practice Language Policy Financial/Banking environment Advanced market savvy and analytics are critical Soft skills and personal connectivity are also often critical

4. The Five Functions of Innovation Systems To create and diffuse ‘new’ knowledge; To guide the direction of the search process among users and suppliers of technology i.e. influence the direction in which actors deploy their resources To supply resources, including capital, competencies and other resources To create positive external economies through the exchange of information, knowledge and vision To facilitate the formation of markets. Functions of innovation systems: A new approach for analyzing technological change, (2006) M.P. Hekkert et al, Journal of Technological Forecasting and Social Change

5. GCFSI takes a broad view of innovation that encompasses technology, policy, markets, management techniques, analytics and combinations of these tools. The development of disruptive solutions has substantial underpinnings in our ability to understand the need, effectively define the solution space, understand the pitfalls in solutions development and then create innovation that meets the need. Considering this broader context of innovation, what does that mean for efforts to bring innovations to scale? The typology of innovations examination of efforts to scale as policy scales differently than technology than skills development and so on.

6. Innovation Typology Thoughts… TechnologyPolicy Cultural Practice Educational Pedagogy Financial Innovations Marketplace Defined Paths Yes No, usually internal or regional No, pathways are long and require deep cultural competence No, cloistered largely in research institutions Yes No, telecom and internet are a driving force but they are not universally accessible R&D Investment Partners Govt., Private sector, Foundation Community, End Users Development agencies, parastatal and regional organizations, Individual Governments Development agencies Development agencies, NGO’s International organizations, National Banks Development agencies, Regional trade NGO’s, Professional organizations Mode of Scaling Bottom up venture development Top down at almost all scales Grassroots education dissemination National implementatio n or Grassroots education dissemination Top down, hegemony driven Top down, bottom up