Kolba, the UN Development Programme in Armenia's social venture incubator, works with citizens and public services to address big social problems. In this presentation, the incubator is placed within the context of Nesta's framework for innovation and standards of evidence.

1. Incubating Development Impact

2. Source: Nesta

3. 1. Research and analysis
- Micro-narratives
- Ethnography
- Big data: smoke signals
- Evidence mapping
- Horizon scanning
- Market intelligence
- Systems mapping
- Service safaris
7. Systemic impact
- Changing behaviour
- Changing laws and regulations
- Calibrating markets
- Understanding interaction of
technologies
2. Ideation and fostering creative
thinking
- Crowdsourcing
- Challenges
- Design tools
- Creativity methods
- Open innovation
6. Scale-up
- Organisational growth
- Spreading ideas
- Transferring practice
- Legislation
- Licensing
- Franchising
3. Experiment
- Rapid prototyping
- Service and process design
- User-design
- Co-design
- Behavioural insights
- Light-touch evaluation
- Randomised Control Trials
- Cost-benefit modelling
4. Business case development
- Market sizing and validation
- Business case analysis
- Independent replication of
evaluation
5. Replication of impact
- Policy design
- Programme design
- Business modelling
- Organisational design
Source: Nesta

5. Source: Nesta

6. Source: Nesta

7. Theory of
change
Correlation
Challenges
Experiments
Alpha
Filter
Prototype
Filter
Ideas
Filter
Causation
Beta
Small Real-World Evaluations
Government
Graduation Enterprise
NGO
UNDP Project

8. Before and after
Who
• 3 staff
• few phone calls?
Where
• Office
Evidence
• Secondary
research
• No precedents
• No feedback loops
When
Solution identified
ex ante
How
• 1 solution preidentified
• Internal
process
• Top-down
• Linear
• Staff
• Universities
• Private sector
• Local Partners
• Start ups
• Individuals
• Int. networks
• Field
• Local
partners
• Gained through
experimentation
• Precedents
• Continuous
feedback loops
Solution identified
ex post
• Portfolio
approach
• Number of
hypothesis
tested
concurrently
• Co-design
• Open, public
process
• Continuous
improvement

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