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Communicating Complexity in the Humanitarian Sector

  • October 16, 2019
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In this article, Center team members and their partners at the UN Refugee Agency’s Innovation Service, describe how academic research can be used to help think through the complexity of innovation and provide a pathway to doing it better. As their own experience shows, complex doesn’t have to mean complicated.

Published: Stanford Social Innovation Review – Oct. 2019

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