Components of the Humanitarian Innovation Ecosystem - Interview Summary for the Humanitarian Innovation Ecosystem Research Project

This report is the second in a series of outputs from the DFID-funded project on the mapping of the Humanitarian Innovation Ecosystem. The project aims to deepen our understanding of just how the humanitarian innovation ecosystem operates in practice and to make recommendations as to how it might be improved to operator in a more efficient and effective manner. In the preceding report (Management, Innovation Ecosystems and Humanitarian Innovation: Literature Review for the Humanitarian Innovation Ecosystem Research Project) the CENTRIM research team explored the key themes in the innovation management literature in order to identify the challenges for those in the humanitarian sector who are seeking to improve the innovation ecosystem.
In this complementary report we attempt to generate a qualitative view from an informed sample of individuals who had expert knowledge of the role and nature of innovation and innovation management within the humanitarian aid sector. It was also designed to help develop and test the evolving systems framework that will be used in the five in-depth case studies which will examine the ecosystem in specific sub-sectors of the humanitarian innovation ecosystem.