Benefits

The BOP initiative operates at the cusp of theory and practice, offering companies, NGOs, social entrepreneurs and global organisations the opportunity to interact with thought leaders in BOP business creation, in addition to trajectories on innovation and new market creation. More specifically it provides innovators access to low risk, high impact, low cost processes to support idea creation, information gathering, business planning and pilot experimentation. This generation and collation of knowledge will also be disseminated and used to influence a wider stakeholder audience and to change policy and practice.

The project is unique in that it bridges the traditional divide between companies, academia, NGOs and social entrepreneurs, promoting and supporting cross-sectoral partnership and operations. It further bridges the divide within academic disciplines – including between innovation management and development studies – and utilises a range of qualitative, quantitative and field research methodologies.

Research projects with Governments, NGOs and companies

What can it do for you?

• Demonstrating how commercial innovation techniques are applicable in the development context
• Design and delivery of innovative new business models
• Tailored advice and recommendations on how best to approach innovation within your context
• Generation of new knowledge and new ways of approaching development challenges
  

Case studies for companies, NGOs and other organizations

What can it do for you?

• Rigorous case studies on success and failure in business model innovation at the base of the pyramid
• Better understanding of innovation processes for your organization
• Advice and recommendations on how to improve innovation
• Lessons learned from previous experience
• A chance to define the future
  

Business model innovation workshops

What can it do for you?

• Help understand and build your company's capability to do business model innovation
• Develop innovation new business models and delivery plans in multi-sector teams – opportunities to define “magic bullets” for development or to improve current methodology
• Give insight into “off-the-press” tools, methodologies and trends in the area of innovation management
• Enhance knowledge by training high-potentials and top managers
  

Projects by top class Masters students within your organization

What can it do for you?

• Fresh approach to organizational challenges by young talented students
• Better understanding of your own innovation processes
• Generate new ideas and fresh approaches for business challenges
• Access to and hands-on evaluation of top talents
  

Internships within your organization

What can it do for you?

• Better understanding of your own innovation processes
• Generate new ideas and fresh approaches for business challenges
• Access to and hands-on evaluation of top talents