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How do we create a more inclusive, productive, and sustainable economic future for all?

Inclusive Innovation

Closed

Submissions are closed

Timeline

  • Solution Deadline

    February 13, 2017 10:39pm EST
  • Applications Open

    January 1, 2019 12:00am EST
  • Solve @ UN

    March 7, 2017 11:59pm EST
  • Solve @ MIT

    May 8, 2017 11:59pm EDT

Challenge Overview

The Inclusive Innovation Competition (IIC) spotlights innovations that address the question: "How do we create a more inclusive, productive, and sustainable economic future for all?" The IIC was born from a Make challenge at the inaugural Solve event in October 2015.

Inclusive innovations are innovations that lead to affordable access to quality goods or services for large numbers of people, creating livelihoods for excluded populations on a long-term, sustainable basis.

The IIC is an awards program identifying, supporting, and celebrating organizations that are working to invent a more sustainable and productive future for everyone. The IIC grants US $1 million to organizations that improve the lives of people at the middle and base of our economy.

The goals of the IIC are (1) to discover, evaluate, and advance the best innovations that reduce inequality; (2) to build a community of Solvers who care about inclusive innovation; and (3) to deepen our understanding of how to achieve inclusive growth. IIC applicants are solutions-focused organizations that have harnessed the modern toolkit of technology to develop breakthrough approaches that raise economic prospects for middle and base-level earners. For-profit and nonprofit organizations of any size, age, or nation may apply.

Judging Criteria

  • Alignment: The solution addresses the challenge that has been set forth using technology.
  • Scalability: The solution can be grown and scaled to affect the lives of more people.
  • Potential for Impact: The solution can be grown and scaled to affect the lives of more people.
  • Novelty: This is a new technology, a new application of a technology, or a new process for solving the challenge.
  • Feasibility: It is feasible to implement the solution, and the team has a plan for the solution to sustain itself financially.

Solutions

Selected

Soko

By Ella Peinovich
Ella Peinovich
Selected

Laboratoria

By Herman Marin
Herman Marin
Selected

Ignitia

By Liisa Petrykowska
Liisa Petrykowska
Selected

Destácame

By Augusto Ruiz-Tagle
Augusto Ruiz-Tagle
Selected

99Degrees

By Brenna Nan Schneider
Brenna  Nan Schneider

Chair

Erik Brynjolfsson

Erik Brynjolfsson

MIT - Sloan School of Management, MIT - Initiative on the Digital Economy, Schussel Family Professor & Director