From Technological Innovation to "the Democratic Urge"

From scientific and technological innovation to understanding how citizens and political systems can work together to drive change: Learn from Kettering Foundation's big narrative pivot.

Case Study: From Technological Innovation to “The Democratic Urge”

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The Charles F. Kettering Foundation is as dedicated to improving quality of life as they ever were - but the Foundation made a big pivot in its ideas about how to get there. This is a change in strategy, but also, more fundamentally, narrative. Now the foundation focuses on the interaction between human parts of a system.

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1 Natalie Napier, “From Technological Innovation to ‘the Democratic Urge’” (InWithForward, May 2024).

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