Скачать или смотреть 🎙️ Innovation Centre Podcast Series - Episode 2: From Innovation to Adoption

Why do so many promising innovations struggle to move beyond pilots and into real-world use?

In Episode 2 of our Innovation Centre Podcast Series, we explore one of the most challenging stages of the innovation journey — adoption — and what it really takes to move innovation from idea to implementation at scale.

📍 Filmed at City of Glasgow College, this episode brings together leaders from Scotland’s Innovation Centres to share their perspectives on why adoption can be difficult to achieve, what causes innovation activity to stall, and how organisations can successfully move innovation into practice.

In this episode, we discuss:

Why adoption is often the most challenging phase of the innovation journey

The role Innovation Centres play in enabling adoption across sectors

What typically causes promising innovation activity to stall before reaching scale

Examples of where diffusion and adoption have worked successfully in practice

Featuring:

Gavin Johnston — BE-ST (Built Environment – Smarter Transformation)

Liz Fletcher — Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (iBoC)

Janette Hughes — Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI)

Anna Ashton-Scott — The Data Lab

This is Episode 2 of a three-part series exploring how innovation moves through Scotland’s innovation system — from diffusion, to adoption, to the skills and people needed for the future system.