Why innovation fails to change world, fixing it

If we are serious about solving these grand challenges, we must confront the uncomfortable truth: our thinking about scale is dangerously outdated.

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When I left a comfortable banking job 23 years ago to pursue a career focused on tackling poverty and hunger in Africa, I believed deeply in one thing: passion, combined with a good idea, could change the world.

Like many others in the development and innovation sectors, I subscribed to a now-familiar theory of change: pilot, replicate, scale.

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