Do We Need to Rethink Innovation?

COVID-19 and the search for solutions is forcing us to rethink innovation. Forget the sacred cows and myths around founding geniuses, corporate innovation culture and crowd-pleasing backstories which often end in failure.

The cold reality is that getting meaningful and durable solutions to markets rely on a succession of collaborations and breakthroughs over time. Overcoming misguided fascination with early-stage innovation and other problems requires more learning by doing and radical collaboration for scaling.

In this session, the panellists explore how to harness capabilities of all the relevant players – whether start-ups, large corporations, universities or governments – in order to scale the provision of socially desirable goods and services.

The panellists also discuss how most areas of society could benefit from rethinking some of the old architecture in order to drive the scaling of solutions needed to solve some of today’s most pressing challenges.