BSL-5: CDC'S OPEN IDEA LAB
Executive Summary
This team explored the possibility of creating an IDEA Lab at CDC in order to cultivate a creative culture promoting innovation. To kick-start this effort within the Ignite parameters, this team proposed that the initial projects of the Lab will focus on “Failing Better: Promoting innovation by de-stigmatizing growth-oriented failure” and “Creative Spaces: Piloting pop-up spaces, self-service rooms, and creativity havens”.
A project supported by: HHS Ignite Accelerator
Team Members
Erica Reott (Project Lead), CDC
Dan Stowell, CDC
Melody Stevens, CDC
C. Leah Franklin, CDC
Milestones
July 2013: Selected into the HHS Ignite Accelerator
August 2013: Time in the Accelerator began
February 2014: Time in the Accelerator ended
Project Sponsor
Salvatore Lucido, Associate Director for Policy, National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC