Geoff Mulgan talks about scaling and growing good innovations at the SIX Spring School in Paris May 2010.

1. Scaling and growing good innovations

2. “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”Franklin D. Roosevelt

3. Many innovations, no shortage of trying – but why are the best ones not adopted, scaled, replicated?

4. Is the problem resistance from incumbents? Do the innovators/entrepreneurs just need more backing, funding, recognition? Is the problem weak demand – commissioning, purchasing, policy? Are the innovations promising but not proven? Do they need refinement to demonstrate impact, cost effectiveness ...? Is there a lack of intermediary organisations to connect supply and demand? To judge what really does work ...

5. Growth patterns

6. Growth patterns

7. Organisational Form Choices What sort of boundaries are placed around the innovation, who’s involved, how much control etc.

11. NICE-type bodies federations franchises licensing policy and programme funding investment for growth – loans, equity, quasi-equity diffusion commissioning 5. scaling and growth Subsidies for diffusion, adoption, adaptation Brands consumer advocacy Markets for outcomes takeover growth through people professional networks/champions emulation National policy directives

12. Are these all missing in ageing? Who owns the problem of scale where there aren’t markets?