The MIT D-Lab Innovation Practice team facilitates inclusive innovation processes to build better products and services, more equitable value chains, more dynamic local innovation ecosystems, and more resilient communities.
At D-Lab, our inclusive innovation approach includes a variety of processes to incorporate the needs and visions of diverse stakeholders, including Creative Capacity Building, Co-Design, Innovation Centers (coming soon!), and Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Read more about our approach here.
The common goal of these processes is the creation of practical solutions — technologies, processes, businesses, value chains, and ecosystems — that deliver measurable and sustainable improvements over what people experience now and that can serve as building blocks towards lives and communities defined by opportunity instead of poverty.
Applying Inclusive Innovation
We apply and test inclusive innovation processes in our own programs:
Enabling Inclusive Innovation
We inspire and enable other practitioners to incorporate inclusive innovation processes in their work:
- Global Workshops
- Professional Education
- Learning Labs
- Trainings of Trainers
- Publications
Innovation Practice Team
Saida Benhayoune, Program Advisor
Laura Budzyna, Associate Director for Innovation Practice, Monitoring, Learning, and Evaluation Manager
Amanda Epting, Inclusive Business Manager
Libby McDonald, Inclusive Markets Specialist
Jona Repishti, Social Entrepreneurship Manager
Amy Smith, Founding Director
Martha Thompson, Humanitarian Innovation Specialist
Sher Vogel, Global Trainings Manager
Contact
Laura Budzyna, Associate Director for Innovation Practice