TY - JOUR
T1 - Identifying technology solutions to bring conservation into the innovation era
AU - Iacona, Gwenllian
AU - Ramachandra, Anurag
AU - McGowan, Jennifer
AU - Davies, Alasdair
AU - Joppa, Lucas
AU - Koh, Lian Pin
AU - Fegraus, Eric
AU - Game, Edward
AU - Guillera-Arroita, Gurutzeta
AU - Harcourt, Rob
AU - Indraswari, Karlina
AU - Lahoz-Monfort, José J.
AU - Oliver, Jessica L.
AU - Possingham, Hugh P.
AU - Ward, Adrian
AU - Watson, David W.
AU - Watson, James E. M.
AU - Wintle, Brendan A.
AU - Chadès, Iadine
N1 - Copyright by the Ecological Society of America. Iacona, G. et al., Identifying technology solutions to bring conservation into the innovation era. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2019; 17( 10): 591– 598, doi:10.1002/fee.2111.
PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - Innovation has the potential to enable conservation science and practice to keep pace with the escalating threats to global biodiversity, but this potential will only be realized if such innovations are designed and developed to fulfill specific needs and solve well-defined conservation problems. We propose that business-world strategies for assessing the practicality of innovation can be applied to assess the viability of innovations, such as new technology, for addressing biodiversity conservation challenges. Here, we outline a five-step, “lean start-up” based approach for considering conservation innovation from a business-planning perspective. Then, using three prominent conservation initiatives – Marxan (software), Conservation Drones (technology support), and Mataki (wildlife-tracking devices) – as case studies, we show how considering proposed initiatives from the perspective of a conceptual business model can support innovative technologies in achieving desired conservation outcomes.
AB - Innovation has the potential to enable conservation science and practice to keep pace with the escalating threats to global biodiversity, but this potential will only be realized if such innovations are designed and developed to fulfill specific needs and solve well-defined conservation problems. We propose that business-world strategies for assessing the practicality of innovation can be applied to assess the viability of innovations, such as new technology, for addressing biodiversity conservation challenges. Here, we outline a five-step, “lean start-up” based approach for considering conservation innovation from a business-planning perspective. Then, using three prominent conservation initiatives – Marxan (software), Conservation Drones (technology support), and Mataki (wildlife-tracking devices) – as case studies, we show how considering proposed initiatives from the perspective of a conceptual business model can support innovative technologies in achieving desired conservation outcomes.
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UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/CE1101014
U2 - 10.1002/fee.2111
DO - 10.1002/fee.2111
M3 - Article
VL - 17
SP - 591
EP - 598
JO - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
JF - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
SN - 1540-9295
IS - 10
ER -