When inclusive innovation leads to inclusive growth, it makes sure that creative and useful ideas and inventions benefit everyone and everything, including people, communities, buildings, infrastructure, animals, plants, ecosystems – the whole planet.

This involves 2 key steps:

1. Building the foundation (inclusive innovation)
   This means involving local communities in innovation, listening to nature, and providing resources like time, money, methods and skills to inventors who create solutions like clean energy, tools for sustainable farming, or ways to protect ecosystems

2. Sharing the benefits (inclusive growth)
   This means making sure that new products and services reach everyone, are affordable and sustainable, and that the value created is used to regenerate the planet and support local communities. By doing this, we can create a world where everyone and everything grows inclusively, stays healthy, and lives peacefully together.

Inclusive innovation is essential for fair, sustainable, and regenerative growth that benefits both people and the planet.

This illustration shows an interconnected ecosystem where inclusive innovation and inclusive growth are linked and overlap and feed into each other in a continuous feedback loop. The text with the loop starts on the left ‘Inclusive innovation – as input, process and impact’ looping to the right ‘Inclusive growth – as output, outcome and impact’. It conveys equity, collaboration and balance between human health and progress and planetary health.

One example for an inclusive growth framework has been developed by WMCA.
West Midlands Combined Authority inclusive growth framework