![]() ![]() Here, the business model might be ‘the innovation’. Or, we could encounter a great intervention that is working for a small group of people but hasn’t yet figured out the business model that would allow it to scale. Here, the policy change itself might be ‘the innovation’ that makes scaling the idea possible. We might encounter a brilliant new EdTech intervention that is operating within a massively constrained policy environment. Here are a couple of hypothetical examples of the ‘innovation’ being a factor in the enabling environment rather than the EdTech intervention itself. This includes the interventions design, manufacturing, route-to-market, distribution, financing, user adoption and more. ![]() The enabling environment is the whole system in which a certain EdTech intervention exists. We are using innovation sandboxes to make sense of the enabling environment. Making sense of ‘the enabling environment’ For example, The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK recently launched a regulatory sandbox that supports those working to deliver innovation in the UK financial services market with the ability to test products and services in a controlled environment.įor example, we may test a new EdTech intervention within a single school, adapt to any issues that may have been a challenge, and then roll out the initiative to a cluster of schools, adapt any issues seen at the bigger scale and then extend to an education district. Many sectors have launched sandboxes, to try new things and mimic a would-be “real world” environment to see what happens. The term itself comes from software engineering and was originally used to describe a space that allowed developers to safely test new code before using it across the board. It allows us to safely learn and adapt in a small space before rolling out promising ideas more widely. As you might have imagined, a sandbox creates a small and contained space to test with a proposed intervention. What’s a sandbox you ask? First in the series, this blog explains what you need to know about the Hub’s approach to experimentation and innovation.Ī sandbox is a real-life location used for experimentation. ![]()
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