ABSTRACT
Adaptive innovation is an iterative and reflective process involving diverse actors who are engaged in an interactive frame of analysis, ideation and practice. This chapter explains in detail the six phases of the adaptive innovation model. The six phases are situational analysis, micro-mobilisation, dialogic ideation, action framing, piloting and emergence. The importance of scoping reviews, participatory mapping and analysis of drivers and barriers in situational analysis is explained. The process of micro-mobilisation is narrated with emphasis on shared visioning, participatory risk and vulnerability analysis and formation of innovation platforms. The members of the innovation platform then engage in dialogic ideation and action framing to imagine diverse pathways of change and build appropriate working models. These models are further piloted for feasibility and scaling up. However, the final phase of emergence is very crucial in adaptive innovation. It highlights those novel and creative phenomena that could arise from our adaptation efforts or else it could be both the anticipated and unintended consequences of our action.
