Will the great ideas kickstarted by the pandemic be more than a blip?
Much of the history of the world has been created out of necessity, with turbulence forcing innovation, invention, and adjustment. Covid-19 appears to be following this path
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Covid-19, says Steve Davis, has provided “a petri dish for the real-time study of social innovation.”
As the co-chair of the World Health Organization’s Digital Health Technical Advisory Group, he’s witnessed a surge of digital tools for testing and tracing, an experience he likens to “drinking from a firehose of innovation.” Metaphors aside, the challenge, Davis says, is to build a better system for making sure great ideas really work, scale, and reach the people who need them.
This piece originally appeared in Stanford Business Insights from Stanford Graduate School of Business. To receive business ideas and insights from Stanford GSB click here: (To sign up: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/about/emails)