Managing Mission Driven Innovation
with Bax’s Innovation Readiness Levels
Mission-driven innovation needs management
Delivering Mission-driven innovation requires innovators to work on Policy, Economy, Society and Technology in parallel – over multiple scale levels, and with multiple stakeholders.
To guide innovators to realise critical missions, we’ve formalised our recipe for successful innovation management.
Tested with more than 1,200 partners and clients, this management approach to mission-driven innovation delivers incremental, tangible results for even the biggest societal challenges.

Read Bax’s Guide
Managing Mission Driven Innovation

Bax’s Mission-Driven Innovation Canvases
To give innovation collaborations a first look into Mission Driven Innovation Management, we’ve developed three do-it-yourself canvases. These canvases, each following one another, take innovators through the full methodology from Mission design to Innovation Design to Project Design.
Keeping track of mission-driven progress with
Bax’s Innovation Readiness Levels
At the core of managing mission-driven innovation is Innovation Readiness Levels©️, Bax’s open-source assessment and tracking tool that enables innovators to keep track of PEST progression in collaborative, multi-level innovation processes.
We’ve released Innovation Readiness Levels under a Creative Commons license to allow as many innovators as possible to benefit from it.
Learn more about Innovation Readiness Levels in our guide Managing Mission Driven Innovation.

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