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"One Size Fits Fits None: Time for an Entrepreneurial Revolution," by Alejandro Juárez Crawford and Miriam Plavin-Masterman, tells the story of the Democratizing Innovation Institute’s work and why it matters now. The book presents new research showing the power that the method catalyzes and why it's needed at scale.
Education is supposed to prepare students for the future—but too often, it does the opposite. It traps them in rigid structures, teaching them to memorize, follow instructions, and stay within the lines. But what if learning wasn’t about absorbing failed models for meeting our needs?
Paul Spinrad's piece in the "Main Street Journal" distills the difference at the heart of DI²'s work: "It’s for people everywhere to create new businesses, not to create a new business for people everywhere." ******** Photo: Partners at SOLshare work on innovating energy affordability and sustainability in Bangladesh.
“I think we got the wrong idea of scale. We think of scale [as] — do one thing and hopefully it'll work for everyone with the variation automated. The alternative is that we instead scale the creation of locally responsive solutions.” Professor Andrews Ayiku's shows the power of this idea in practice.
“These systems were built by people who don’t care about us. That’s why bottom-up innovation works better.” – Mim Plavin-Masterman

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