Seeding Markets To Grow Transformational Innovations
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The Challenges of Social Innovation
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The Lessons of Market-Making for Tech Innovations
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An Evolving Landscape Changes Which Tools are Most Effective
Societal challenges such as climate change or eroding public trust cannot be solved by new technology tools alone. Rather, they will take new ideas and new technologies working together to improve people’s lives.
Government still needs to play an important role in shaping and supporting innovations to these massive problems. But in today’s environment, where the private sector has emerged as a dominant source of funding for both technological and social innovation, finding these solutions requires government to work in a more integrated, agile way with the private sector.
To catalyze the innovations of tomorrow, government needs new tools today.
This paper examines the case for tapping into emerging sectors as an important source of economic growth and development, with examples of different countries and their approach to identifying new opportunities and capturing inherent economic value.
Over the past 25 years, education outcomes have stagnated globally, while the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities in the education system.
This report discusses how governments have evolved to, among other things, manage social contracts, and they play a central role in contemporary societies.