Innovation as a Tool to Make the First Years Count: I-Lab: An innovation approach to unattended social needs

Abstract

The innovative solutions we need can be found by allowing all stakeholders a chance to contribute their ideas.

Notes

¹ https://hbr.org/2011/02/social-progress-economic-succe

² https://publications.iadb.org/bitstream/handle/11319/6396/CTI%20DP%20How%20To%20Promote%20High-Impact%20Innovations%20through%20SIF.pdf

³ http://www.bidinnovacion.org/es/

⁴ http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14479338.2016.1268924

⁵ https://ssir.org/articles/entry/rediscovering_social_innovation

⁶ http://www.bidinnovacion.org/data/publicaciones/BROCHURE-SOCIAL-INNOVATION-DIGITAL.pdf?6139974

⁷ https://publications.iadb.org/handle/11319/6941

⁸ See Dirección General de Estadística, Encuestas y Censo (DGEEC) estimates for 2018.

⁹ https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2167

¹⁰ http://ilabparaguay.org/

¹¹ http://koga.socialab.com/challenges/I-lab.Losprimerosa%C3%B1oscuentan

¹² https://www.facebook.com/pg/ILABparaguay/videos/

¹³ http://www.minedu.gob.pe/minedulab/

¹⁴ http://www.lab.gob.cl/#intro

¹⁵ http://www.ideasparaelcambio.gov.co/

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Marieke Goettsch

Marieke Goettsch and Nicolas Canete are Innovation Consultants at the Competitiveness, Technology and Innovation Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Mercedes Mateo Diaz

Mercedes Mateo Diaz is Lead Education Specialist at the Education Division also at IDB. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Inter-American Development Bank, its Board of Directors, or the countries they represent.

Nicolas Canete

Marieke Goettsch and Nicolas Canete are Innovation Consultants at the Competitiveness, Technology and Innovation Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).