Scaling Impact: Innovation for the Good 

1. Technical Justification - basing the decision to scale an innovation on evidence that suggests it can create specific impacts.

2. Intended Impact - the set of desirable impacts that an innovation sets out to produce and the undesirable impacts it sets out to avoid.

3. Moral Justification - basing the decision to scale an innovation on the balance of values and evidence that suggest it should create specific impacts.

4. Endorsement - an ideal that may not be fully achievable—if all stakeholders had all available information about the impacts of an innovation, its alternatives, and the contexts in which it would be used, they would choose to scale the innovation (or not) as the decision-makers did.

5. Impact Risk - the risk borne by the people affected by an innovation that it fails to create impacts they judge desirable alongside the risk that it creates impact they judge undesirable.

6. Equity - how fairly impacts are distributed, which may include prioritising access according to need, not replicating or increasing existing inequalities (gender, wealth, race, and ethnicity), ensuring that one group does not benefit while another is unduly harmed, and balancing the benefits and harm experienced by individuals in ways they judge acceptable.

7. Evolving Set Of Actors - the people and organisations responsible for implementing part of the scaling process and ensuring that other actors enter and exit the process as needed.

8. Variety - how diverse impacts are, which may include the number of different impacts that are produced, the number of levels at which an impact is created (individual, community, and societal), the number of independent ways that an innovation creates the same impact, and the range of contexts in which the innovation is effective.

9. Scaling Imperative - the more-is-better mindset that innovations must be scaled in order to achieve impacts that are transformative, sustainable, or profitable. Typically, bigger is better logic.

10. Magnitude - how much impact is created, which may include the average size or quality of impacts, how many people benefit or are harmed, and the importance, value, or merit of impacts as judged by stakeholders.

11. Sustainability - how long impacts last, which may include the duration of impacts experienced by people, places, or things; the length of time over which an effort to create impact can be continued; and the period in which countervailing forces (resistance to antibiotics, market forces, and social norms) have yet to render an innovation ineffective.

12. Optimal Scale - the point at which magnitude, variety, sustainability, and equity of impacts are balanced in a way that is widely endorsed.

13. Scaling System - the setting in which an innovation is scaled, which is defined by the people, places, and things that affect and are affected by the scaling process.

14. Intervention - a strategy for creating change. (In terms of research and innovation, interventions often follow the pathways to scale typology and exist as programmes, behaviour change, policies, products, methods, and so on.

15. Scaling Intervention - actions taken to change the magnitude, variety, equity, or sustainability of an impact.

16. Scaling Effects - the linear and non-linear, quantitative and qualitative relationships between scaling actions and scaling impact.

17. Shared Decisions - a way of promoting wide endorsement by ensuring that a diverse group of stakeholders (including those who are impacted) make decisions, and that the voices and values of those who are not decision-makers contribute to the decisions.

18. Coordination - coordination entails a multi-level, collective perspective with participation of actors from many standpoints, and most importantly those likely to be affected by an innovation.

19. Portfolio Approach - a strategic means of coordinating multiple innovations to optimise impact and opportunity.

20. Collection Of Impacts - all the impacts created by an innovation, including those that are undesirable as well as those that are unanticipated.

21. Scaling Process - a flexible set of stages that move an innovation toward impact at Optimal Scale.

22. Evaluation - the determination of the merit, worth or significance of something.

What impact does the innovation have that suggests scaling is necessary?

What did you set out to do with your innovation?

What values suggest that you should scale this innovation?

What is it about your innovation that will convince stakeholders to champion its scale?

Do the benefits of scaling outweigh the risks?

How fairly are the impacts of your innovation distributed?

How do you manage the actors within your scaing system?

What kinds of impacts does your innovation have?

Why should you scale your innovation?

What level of magnitude do you hope to reach with your innovation?

How long can your innovation continue to make the impacts that it is making?

How will you know when your innovation has reached the right balance of elements that promote scale?

Who are the different groups within your innovation's scaling system?

What change are you trying to make?

How do your actions lead to scaling your innovation?

How do you see the relationship between the change you're trying to make and the actions you are taking to scale your innovation?

How do you intend to promote the endorsement of your innovation's scale?

How do you plan on organising actors in an effective way?

How are you using multiple innovations to maximise impact?

What are all of the impacts your innovation has had?

How will you involve stakeholders in your process of scaling?

At what stages in the scaling process are you evaluating your innovation's scaling?