A Call for Scaling Literacy: On strategic dimensions and directions of systemic scaling

Scaling is a motif describing the proportionate growth of innovation. Over the past decade, scholars have adapted the original idea of scaling from business to differentiate different ways to scale that are more appropriate in the context of social innovation. Scaling is sometimes thought of as a panacea: it is the end result, purpose, or answer...

Fruitful friction as a strategy to scale social innovations: A conceptual framework to enable the emergence of common ground in multi-stakeholder social innovation projects

Social innovations are promising to tackle today's complex global challenges, especially when they scale, leading to a higher impact, which can generate asocietal transformation. The current work elaborates on scaling deep, a specific scaling strategy aiming to shift cultural values, mindsets and beliefs. However, applying this strategy in...

Off to new shores: Sailing towards common ground

“Off to new shores!” is a two-hour, interactive online workshop, participants will sail together to common ground and co-create a shared understanding of central concepts regarding a provided case. Participants learn and apply the concept of fruitful friction and use the metaphor of sailing. Fruitful friction is a concept that deliberately...