Fostering Structural
Innovation

We foster a new generation of structural innovations by collaborating with innovators across the country to bring structural innovations to fruition. Through an intensive mapping exercise we find the issues most prevalent in communities and open a collaborative challenge that brings together innovations aimed at the issue.

goal

Foster
structural
innovations

When the problem is so entrenched that there are no single silver bullet solutions, Economic Architecture seeks to foster a new generation of structural innovations with the potential to create impact at magnitude of the problem.

Objective 1

Introduce A
Framework

Our first objective is to enable people to see the complex nature of the problem, understand the need for structural innovations to address it and have the tools to identify them.

Objective 2

Identify Supply
of Innovations

Our second objective is to increase the supply of innovations with the potential to meaningfully impact the problems, by partnering with innovators proximate to the problem. This involves identifying the most powerful innovations and challenging the most promising innovators and entrepreneurs to take on these ideas, to improve upon and surpass them with innovations of their own.

Objective 3

Build DEMAND
FOR INNOVATIONS

Our third objective is to increase demand amongst the partners, funders investors, policy makers and many others that those innovations will need to succeed.
This involves engaging prospective partners from the outset in low cost, high insight generating activities through which they will build an understanding of and interest in the emerging structural innovations.

Plan

collaborative
challenge

Each of these three objectives is woven through a five-stages collaborative innovation challenge process

Valuing Homes
in Black
Communities

Innovations  focused on the devaluation of homes in majority Black neighborhoods.

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Design

We design, build and launch structural innovations with the potential to make our markets more inclusive. When we identify an innovation that can address gaps in the market and create a structural change that can scale to the magnitude of the problem but there is no other innovator to move… Read More

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Understanding

We drive a growing awareness and understanding of when and how to (re)design the market to improve people’s lives. Through deep research and our learnings from our collaborative challenges and design studio we are able to bridge the gaps between the problems, the solutions, and the need for these solutions.

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