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Adrian McEwen

Recently @rachelcoldicutt published a green paper From Hype to Hope: How Networked Neighbourhoods can make innovation work for everyone

It gave me an assortment of jumping off points to discuss "innovation", culture change and how to build more spaces like @DoESLiverpool and grow what we're doing there.

mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/thi

www.mcqn.netMcFilter: Distributing and Democratizing Innovation

As that blog post was getting a bit long, I also posted a companion piece with some ideas of the sort of stuff funders, councils, etc. could buy rather than "innovation"

"Don't Buy Innovation, Buy Things. Some Suggestions."

mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/thi

www.mcqn.netMcFilter: Don't Buy Innovation, Buy Things. Some Suggestions.

@DoESLiverpool @amcewen thank you for this! Have just got some funding to do the next bit of this so will be in touch very soon.

@rachelcoldicutt @DoESLiverpool you're welcome. Thanks for the original paper!

I think the funding stuff could have been a bit more nuanced, but it was already far too long and the answer to that is an essay of its own that I've not worked my way into yet 🤣