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Implement Theory-Driven Incubator and/or Accelerator Structure to Facilitate Team-based Innovations

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This expectation instructs TPP23 Hub grantees to:

Develop and execute an innovation strategy.
Support Innovation Development Teams (IDTs) to explore, develop, test, and package innovations.
Ensure processes, environments, prototypes, and later-stage innovations are age appropriate, medically accurate, culturally, and linguistically appropriate and trauma-informed prior to dissemination and, if applicable, packaging.

Incubators only:

Support multiple cohorts of IDTs that, by the end of their time, are prepared to transition to an Accelerator program (if they have a promising prototype).
Define phases that allow IDTS to start with exploration. All IDTs should employ participatory co-design methods.
Focus on collecting formative (not outcome or impact) data.

Accelerators only:

Support multiple cohorts of IDTs with taking existing prototypes that demonstrate promise to the next stage.
Define what is meant by “promising.”
Communicate to IDT applicants that they should anticipate user feedback and use participatory co-design methods.
Define phases and specific activities.

Hybrids only:

Support multiple cohorts of IDTs as a combined version of the Incubator and Accelerator models and phases.
Follow expectations above for Incubators and Accelerators.