Innovation's Organizing Principles

A few introductory points:

• Although the template used for these examples does not address "how" hypotheses explicitly, it should(!).


• The examples are of social innovation, in part because social examples tend to include web sites that tell a story of the offering's development and operations. Direct quotes from the web sites illustrate this source. Also, as social innovation examples, each profile includes two parts:
  
  
  • A set of standard headings pertinent to all types of innovation.
  • A separate matrix based on the prototype's social innovation differential (assuming frequent inclusion of multiple types of change, with multiple change catalysts, and multiple segments of customers or service delivery).


• Each profile also includes sample search tags associated with template headings. This is to help illustrate that a profile such as the "Prison Entrepreneurship Program" could result from a search based on any of the various tags listed, such as:
  
  
  • Corrections
  • Entrepreneurship Education
  • Economic Development
  • Behavioral Change
  • Capability Change
  • Partnership with State Agency
  • and more.


• These examples emphasize content, not visual presentation. That presentation requires skills beyond mine.