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Title: Evaluating Innovation Workshop


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Evaluating Innovation Workshop
  • Quaye Botchway
  • Consultant
  • ECOTEC Research Consulting

2
Scope of workshop activities
  • Short presentation on innovation
  • Illustration of a proposed framework for
    evaluating innovation
  • Group exercises and presentations
  • Closing remarks

3
What is Innovation?
  • Innovation n.
  • The act of introducing something new.
  • Something newly introduced.
  • a new device or process created by study and
    experimentation
  • A change effected by innovating a change in
    customs something new, and contrary to
    established customs, manners, or rites. --Bacon

4
Why evaluate innovation?
  • To understand
  • To check practice against proposals
  • To validate findings
  • To disseminate lessons

5
What are we evaluating?
  • Nature of innovation
  • Process orientated-innovations
  • Goal orientated innovations
  • context innovations
  • Form of innovation
  • incrementally improving existing approaches
  • combining existing approaches in new ways
  • targeting new groups or sectors
  • introducing totally new way of working

6
Measuring innovation
  • Appropriate methodologies will vary
  • Comparison with baseline
  • But also
  • what works better (or doesnt!)
  • how and why does it work better
  • Appropriate indicators will vary
  • link to objectives
  • link to activities
  • standard rules (e.g. SMART)

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Framework
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