Innovation Exchange

Innovation Exchange describes itself as an honest broker, surfacing opportunities for innovation, helping innovators, investors and commissioners to connect around them and supporting them to collaborate. Interesting, then, that this seems to be part of a broader trend, picked up on by Matthew Horne in a new publication from the Innovation Unit, one of our consortium partners:

“A new type of organisation is emerging within the world of public services. They are known as ‘innovation brokers’. Not a very glamorous title, and not necessarily a title that these organisations would claim for themselves, but they are modelling themselves on intermediary organisations that have existed in other sectors for years – such as innovation and science parks, incubators, accelerators, exchanges, labs and studios.”