Innovation programmes
Innovation programmes at The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) are designed to find, test and carry forward technologies that solve real resilience problems: through open challenges, controlled tests and support pathways that end in evidence a buyer or authority can examine. This page sets out how a challenge would run, what support is designed to include and the boundaries that keep testing honest. No challenge or test call is approved and open yet, so none is listed. Return to GCRI programmes.
- Institution
- The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
- Service level
- R0: information and enquiries
GCRI · Programme portfolioProgramme portfolio, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.
The short answer.
GCRI innovation programmes are designed to find, test and carry forward technologies that solve real resilience problems, through open challenges, controlled tests and support pathways that end in evidence a buyer or authority can examine. Each stage leaves a record, testing is not certification, and no challenge is open yet.
Scoping to review.
Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.
Systemic exposure in India.
Where people and networks concentrate, the exposure through which shocks travel between systems, shown for India as an example geography for this subject.
From a challenge to a transition recommendation.
Each stage leaves a record, so that a buyer, an authority or a critic can see how a candidate was chosen, how it was tested and what the test did and did not show.
- 01
Challenge
An approved challenge states the problem, the users, the conditions and the selection criteria.
- 02
Selection
Proposals receive a documented selection decision, never one that depends on a contribution.
- 03
Test
Selected candidates are tested under the Labs protocol. See Labs gateway.
- 04
Evidence
Measured evaluation, failure cases and interoperability findings are recorded.
- 05
Transition
A transition recommendation names the competent next owner, if any.
Teams that can bring a working candidate.
SMEs and startups
Small teams with a candidate technology and the capacity to support a test.
Technology providers
Established providers testing interoperability and behaviour under representative conditions.
Research teams
University and institute teams moving a method from research towards use.
What innovation support is not.
- Testing is not certification, a regulatory sandbox or a procurement status.
- Precompetitive work never shares competitors' confidential information.
- Support does not include funding or investment; finance-readiness questions are led by The Global Risks Alliance (GRA), which does not invest.
- Rights in background technology stay with their owners under a rights schedule.
Terms used on this page.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Public procurement of innovation | Public purchasing of solutions not yet on the market, or new to the buyer. |
| Testbed | A controlled setting, from a lab rig to a field site or sandbox, for trying a technology before it meets real conditions of use. |
| Technology readiness level | A scale from basic principles to proven operation that describes how mature a technology is. |
| Valley of death | The funding and capability gap between a research result and a product ready for investment. |
No approved challenge is open.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. Teams can register interest through Technology and infrastructure providers. Wider context is on Innovation and technological change, and GRA's view of financial technology on Financial technology and transformation.
Questions and answers.
Is there prize money or funding?
Who owns what we bring to a test?
Can a test lead to adoption by a government?
Will results be public?
Around GCRI.
Start with an enquiry.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.