Large institutions like ours can’t compete with smaller, nimbler and more risk-tolerant firms and social enterprises when it comes to innovating at speed.
But when it comes to recognizing models that work, what we can do is evaluate them rigorously, share widely what we learn and adapt them to a variety of contexts.
That’s innovating at scale.
It’s less about early adoption and more about global adaptation. It’s about anchoring and contextualizing policy and business model innovations within a variety of geographies with different political, social and economic realities.
What would it take to surface such high potential innovations more often and reduce the cycle times for them to spread?

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