Inclusive Innovation
Across the world universities have an enormous amount of knowledge with the potential to contribute significantly to sustainable development. Cutting-edge research and new science and technology could significantly change the world for the better, but all too often this knowledge does not reach the people who could benefit most.
Over the past decade CGE has been working out how universities can be engines of positive change for society and the environment. Through trial and error, with real projects and collaborations, we have evolved an approach to doing this that we call Inclusive Innovation.
Made up of principles, practices, programmes, and partnerships, the Inclusive Innovation approach was developed in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Cambridge and partners around the world.
Principles and Practices
CGE’s Inclusive Innovation principles and practices ensure that impact-focused research and innovation are co-created collaboratively, based on mutual regard for different types of expertise; integrated into existing ecosystems in ways that enhance the agency of local actors; and delivered with fair recompense and sufficient return.
IMPACT FOCUSED
COCREATED COLLABORATIVELY
MUTUAL RESPECT
SYSTEMS APPROACH
ENHANCE AGENCY
FAIR RECOMPENSE
SUFFICIENT RETURN
Programmes
An enabling environment is created through the establishment of an inclusive innovation ecosystem made up of programmes support the evolution of innovations from idea through research and R&D to implementation and impact.
Partnerships
We establish long term partnerships with collaborators across the world interested in the inclusive innovation approach. With collaborators from civil society, academia, government, and business we co-create solutions that are shaped for with and by the communities they serve.
Inclusive Characteristics
Together these principles and practices, programmes and partnerships produce innovations with the inclusive characteristics necessary for these to be useable and used in resource-constrained environments.
Responsible
Responds to a genuine need
Adds significant value
Accessible to end-users
Context-appropriate
Explore how the different elements of inclusive innovation are expressed in our work by searching our projects and programmes.