Innovation Platforms

The innovation platform is a unique, participatory, inclusive, facilitated approach geared towards developing actors’ consensus and action on common or systemic challenges and opportunities. The core assumption in innovation systems thinking as we have applied across a number of projects, is that problems are essentially the result of institutional failures and/or inefficiencies. A functioning innovation platform works because it is a safe space for stakeholders to work together to solve industry problems. It is safe because it is facilitated and designed to build trust, honesty, and openness, encouraging and supporting the emergence of often deep-seated, complex, underlying issues and solutions to be co-created by the platform membership.