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The Geneva Innovation Movement curates and publishes practice insights in the form of white paper studies. The goal is to make changemaking initiatives available for the ecosystem in a central place.

Die Kraft der Innovation (2022)

Zeitschrift Vereinte Nationen

The United Nations is often criticized for its lack of innovative spirit. However, there are many groundbreaking innovations emanating from the UN. Important drivers of this are entrepreneurship and digital technologies, which enable even large bureaucratic organizations to develop new capabilities and launch transformation processes. IN GERMAN
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Creating People-Centric International Organisations With AI (2022)

INSEAD

The United Nations is both a fascinating playground for artificial intelligence applications and a showcase of AI implementation problems and solutions. This Knowledge Piece explains why. Based on on the research by the same authors "Ethically Embracing the New Frontier: Artificial Intelligence Initiatives in International Organizations (2021)" also curated on this page.
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Annual Report 2021

Geneva Innovation Movement Association

Read all about the accomplishments of the Geneva Innovation Movement Association in its first year of operations, as well as its plans for the future.
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Innovation for Impact: An International Business Perspective on Transforming the United Nations (2022)

AIB Insights

The UN organizations are major players in international governance and are characterized by bureaucratic, globally dispersed and politically driven structures, but are hardly ever considered in IB research. The UN organizations are struggling to create innovative approaches to fulfil their core missions in today’s digital world and evidence shows that intrapreneurship and scaling innovation will be critical for transformation.
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Innovation Projects Can Reinvent the UN (2021)

Journal of Management Studies

Innovative projects spearheaded by UN country offices are remodeling the institution and expanding its role. Digital initiatives and initiatives that scaled through headquarters were shown to have the strongest impact, changing ways of working, embedding new skills, and restructuring teams across the UN. The research highlights that fostering even single innovative projects could lead to fundamental transformations in the UN through mechanisms of imprinting.
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Ethically Embracing the New Frontier: Artificial Intelligence Initiatives in International Organizations (2021)

Center for Innovation and Partnerships, Geneva Innovation Movement, UNIGE, INSEAD & UNIN

What are best practices for innovation in INGOs? How does the organization’s innovation journey evolve? Which challenges do organizations face and how could they be addressed? This paper presents a snapshot of innovation in NGO’s today. It highlights key opportunities and challenges to fostering further innovation as we move into the post-pandemic world.
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Mapping the Humanitarian Transformation: Spotlight on Innovation in International NGOs (2021)

UNIGE, Center for Innovation & Partnerships and Geneva Innovation Movement

What are best practices for innovation in INGOs? How does the organization’s innovation journey evolve? Which challenges do organizations face and how could they be addressed? This paper presents a snapshot of innovation in NGO’s today. It highlights key opportunities and challenges to fostering further innovation as we move into the post-pandemic world.
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Building Responsible Innovation in International Organizations through Intrapreneurship (2021)

Journal of Management Studies

Eight case studies of intrapreneurial initiatives in socially oriented organizations, originated in country offices and scaled either organically or strategically, distinguish two ways of how initiatives mitigate different responsible innovation tensions to foster competence development, structural alignment, and mission stretch. The findings uncover the boundary conditions of non-profit intrapreneurship, its tensions, and its scaling processes.
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