Date:
7th April 2022
Your Name:Â Â
David Harkin
Position:Â
CEOÂ
Solution Name:Â
8billionideas SPARK Solution
Legal Structure:
Private Limited Company
Main Funding Source:
Cross sector education organization paid for by our B2B clients. Originally funded by angel investment.Â
Phase(s) of Education:
Teaching CommunityÂ
Number of Students:Â
5,000 teachers using the platform
Purposes of Education supported:Â
Intrapreneurship – Helping schools create a culture of intrapreneurship.Â
Solution Description:
An intrapreneur by definition is someone who acts like an entrepreneur but within a business or an organization. We embed a training programme with a piece of software to help with a mindset shift and ideation.  Â
Potential for systemic impact (EXCLUDING Equity)?
Imagine 1 million people understanding the importance of marginal gains and we’ve put the infrastructure in place to listen to these ideas and act on them. All ideas can be linked to – improving what’s happening in the classroom, employee well-being, productivity, generating income for a school or saving money – Why would we not want to take this seriously?Â
Does the solution improve Equity? How?Â
Absolutely – Gives a platform for all to share their ideas and changes our approach to innovation that it should be bottom up and not top down.Â
Barriers to adoption relating to Accountability Rules and Funding Formulae:
A competitive industry focused on exam results and not improving the culture for its employees or indeed for the schools are students operate. Â
Additional Comments?
Ideation and innovation is fundamentally not understood in education. We focus too much on the big ideas and forget that tiny and small ideas matter.  Â