Evaluating Innovation Workshop

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Evaluating Innovation Workshop

• Quaye Botchway
• Consultant
• ECOTEC Research Consulting

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Scope of workshop activities

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

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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

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Why evaluate innovation?

• To understand
• To check practice against proposals
• To validate findings
• To disseminate lessons

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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

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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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