Scaling Up Successful and Meaningful Business Engagement

Through Convergent Innovation

Innovate in the Way We Innovate Laurette Dube

Aruba, June 6th 2013PACO III

PNAS Special Feature on Paths of Convergence fFor Agriculture, Health, and Wealth

Whole-of-Society Approach To Convergence between Human and Economic Development and Growth (Health)

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Private Sectors –Agriculture, Agri-Food and Other Economic Sectors

Private Sector – Bio-tech, Pharma, Medicine, Health, Healthcare, Education & other Human Sectors

Human & Economic

Development & Growth Government Sectors

Civil Society Sectors

Institutional Innovation through Government and Governance: Cross-Sectoral Policy Convergence and Beyond

GOVERNMENT

COMMUNITY

PRIVATE SECTOR

Polycentric Governance in WoS

Consumers

Grassroots

Community

Small & Medium

Businesses

Cooperatives

Large NGO’s

(Global & Nat’l)

Many Stakeholders in Gov’t and Public Policy

Large businesses (Global &

Nat’l)

Regulator

Provide of Public Goods

and Services

Steward of Pulbic

Resoures & Investmens

Partner in multi-sector

collaboration

Enabler of social and business

innovation

Enabler of Whole

of Society Action

Government & Public Policy in its many roles

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Convergent Innovation: Capitalizing on the Lifeblood of Development

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C I Operationalization

Convergence Innovation Roadmaps: 5 Domains in Need of WoS Solutions

with Impact, Scale and Resilience

• Micronutrient Sufficiency, Anemia and Stunting Reduction

• Affordable Dietary Diversity and Balance

– Promotion of home- and market-based production and consumption of nutrient-rich agricultural commodity (e.g., pulses, vegetable)

– Successful improvement nutrient profile of all food– Promotion and Nudge innovation for dietary diversity and balance

• Home Health (multi-faceted innovation at both end of lifecourse continuum)

• Obesity and Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Prevention and Control

• Digital Technologies and Traditions for Affordable Healthcare and Universal Health Coverage

5 Support Programs

• Behavioral Economics, Decision Neuroscience, and Ethnographic Studies of What Drives Human Behavior (to inform nudge innovation)

• Innovation Ecosystems, Knowledge Assets Management, and Incentive

• Complex Collaboration and Base-of-Pyramid Enterprises: Mechanisms, Strategies, Governance, and Impact Assesment

• WoS Metrics and Analytics• Capacity Strenghtening and Adaptive Learning