RCTs can provide important information to policy-makers tasked with allocating resources to different interventions.INFO responsible for inDemand intervention and concerned with ensuring their programmes continue to attract funding has a keen interest in promoting inDemand RCT in order to show the new programme provide value for money and yield measureable benefits to participants, as well as to society as a whole.
This a collection of insight that could be acted upon by INFO. They might also of interest for the European Commission as promoter of the inDemand RCT project.
LESSONS LEARNT
1. Compared with the inDemand co-creation exercise, the interactions were much more fluid with private Challengers than with public ones.
2. Solvers grasp very well what the challenge is about. Selecting solvers that have experience on the topic enables a fast solution creation.
3. Most of the issues in the team relationship had to do with the difficulty of access to the Challenger contact point by the Solver.
4. Some challengers changed the focus/scope of their challenges during execution. This is not necessarily bad but frustrates Solvers and delays the solution development.
5. Solvers are way more pro-active than Challengers. They clearly see the commercial potential of the opportunity and grasp it very quickly.
6. Some challenger management teams lack innovation experience, but this is not an issue. Lack of response or long cycles of feedback is a much worse barrier.
7. This would match quite well with respect to the role of technological specialisation during the process and the understanding of the purpose of the cocreation related to the stated challenge.
8. Other aspects of improvement relating to the role of INFO arising from interviews with challengers and solvers and controls would be the perception of excessive bureaucracy in the process
9. As for the perception of the co- creation process of creating solutions to the challenges, the perception between challengers and solver in relation to the co-creation process and the solutions generated has been very positive.
10. In terms of negative aspects, improvement and challenges or difficulties, the challengers pointed out the need to improve economic aspects and financial management, while the solvers raised the need to improve the financial endowment
11. In positive terms, both from the solver and from the challenger, the positive perception of the co-creation carried out and of this procedure for its implications in efficiency, adaptability and replicability of both the model and the product would be noteworthy.
