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dc.titleScaling Innovations in Development: The Experience of IDB Lab
dc.contributor.authorGuerrero, Isabel
dc.contributor.authorRivera, Johanan
dc.contributor.editorNavajas, Sergio
dc.contributor.editorNawar, María Elena
dc.contributor.orgunitIDB Lab
dc.coverageLatin America and the Caribbean
dc.date.available2023-04-19T00:04:00
dc.date.issue2023-04-19T00:04:00
dc.description.abstractThe approach to scaling up innovations in development is broken due to insufficient skills and funding for intermediation. Intermediation involves the essential technical assistance required by organizations and projects to achieve scale, such as strategic planning, convening, and coordinating stakeholders, and investment packaging. This report derives lessons on how to effectively scale innovations in development through an analysis of 39 IDB Lab projects and approximately 100 interviews. It proposes adhering to four principles for enhancement: establishing a consistent and systematic definition of scale, measuring success based on the maturity of the solution, acknowledging, and fostering the intermediation function, and investing in agile tracking while learning from errors. By implementing these strategies, development organizations can seamlessly incorporate scaling up innovation into their operations.
dc.format.extent27
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004847
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Scaling-Innovations-in-Development-The-Experience-of-IDB-Lab.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/spanish/document/Escalando-la-innovacion-en-el-mundo-del-desarrollo-la-experiencia-de-BID-Lab.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectInnovation
dc.subjectPrivate Sector
dc.subjectBank Loan
dc.subjectInvestment
dc.subjectFinance
dc.subjectCollaboration
dc.subjectLabor Force
dc.subjectEconomy of Scale
dc.subject.jelcodeO20 - Development Planning and Policy: General
dc.subject.jelcodeO30 - Innovation • Research and Development • Technological Change • Intellectual Property Rights: General
dc.subject.keywordsDevelopment;Development Effectiveness;scale;scaling up;scalability;multilaterals;innovation;intermediation;development finance institutions
dc.typeCatalogs and Brochures
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-CB-00744
idb.operationBK-C2176
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