GRF · Innovation Nexus
Mandate, publisher and status
Innovation Nexus is a specialist platform of Global Risks Forum (GRF), established at its existing address. Its subject is the governance of innovation: how institutions experiment under safeguards, evaluate honestly, cooperate across sectors and spread what works in the public interest. It convenes and records; it does not fund, select or promote any technology or company, and taking part confers no endorsement. This page sets out who publishes the platform, what its mandate covers, the professional status of those who take part and the limits that apply to everything it does.
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Mandate, publisher and status in six parts.
Governed innovation that produces learning.
The platform's thesis is governed public-interest innovation and cross-sector technology cooperation oriented to demonstrable learning.
Institutions around a question
Dialogues that start from a stated question and end with a record of what was agreed and where participants disagreed.
Programmes and evaluation
Innovation programme designs and public-value evaluation guides that others can adopt under their own authority.
Institutional skills
Capacity building for public and institutional innovators to commission, test and evaluate new approaches.
Governing the adoption of new tools for shared risk.
Innovation Nexus looks at how public institutions and operators take up new technologies and practices for managing risk: sensors and drones for inspection, machine-learning forecasts, parametric triggers, citizen reporting apps. Its question is institutional: under which trial rules, procurement terms and accountability arrangements a tool can be adopted, scaled or withdrawn.
- In scope: sandboxes, innovation procurement, anticipatory governance, responsible innovation practice.
- Out of scope: building or selling technology, and judging any product.
Who is responsible.
GRF publishes Innovation Nexus and answers for what appears on it. GRF is a Swiss association with a public-good, not-for-profit purpose, and one of the three pillar institutions of the Nexus Consortium, alongside The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) and Global Risks Alliance (GRA). GRF governs Universe, the annual programme in which selected work is tested.
Innovation Nexus is an established platform of Global Risks Forum (GRF). Its activities are shown here only as each one is confirmed on the record, and the work open today is information and enquiries. Contributors take part in their professional capacity; taking part does not make anyone a representative of GRF, and GRF does not speak for their institutions.
What Innovation Nexus does not do.
- It does not regulate, license or supervise any person, technology or sector.
- It does not finance, invest in, underwrite or procure innovations, and it does not select suppliers.
- It does not certify products, programmes or people, and it does not grant regulatory relief or run regulatory sandboxes.
- Hosting or sponsorship confers no authority over findings, and a dialogue record is not a decision of any authority.
Decisions on regulation, funding, procurement and adoption remain with the competent public and institutional decision-makers; see decision-rights context.
Where the platform sits.
Innovation Nexus belongs to the innovation, artificial intelligence and industry and robotics fields. Its science counterpart is Labs at GCRI and its finance counterparts include AI and Financial Model Risk at GRA. Read discipline and institutional issues for the field itself.
Where this page's references lead.
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
Questions and answers.
Is Innovation Nexus a separate organisation?
Does taking part give me a title or role?
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What is the platform's current status?
Bring a governance question to the Forum.
Information and enquiries are open today. 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.
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