Innovation Partnerships Project: Final Report

The Innovations Partnerships Project (IPP) aimed at improving the understanding of how MSF can better position itself when engaging with external partners on innovative projects – often based around co-creation, R&D or service provision. These partnerships take various forms and will often result in new products or services that might be used internally or go to market.

As an independent humanitarian organisation that fiercely guards its independence, finding the best way to reconcile MSF’s principles with the commercial interests of potential partners can be difficult. As such, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit embarked on a multiphase project to better understand the issues that come up frequently in collaborations with external parters and document the lessons learned.