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Beware the tool you reach for first
A few weeks ago, Brink’s East Africa Director, wrote a piece about the way funders tend to default to the same small handful of familiar formats when they’re under pressure. In that article Alice looked at how accelerator programmes in part...
Why identity is so important to innovation
Most of us are taught that you need to know something before you can do it. But the research on how people actually build professional identities suggests the opposite is true. It’s only through doing that we genuinely learn, and it’s throu...
Ecosystems don't photograph well
Hilda Bugingo. Technical lead at FREO2 Foundation Uganda.
A few years ago, Hilda Bugingo’s sister gave birth to premature twins in Uganda. Two days after the birth, the hospital ran out of oxygen and both babies died. Hilda tells this conf...
If you know what works, why is it so hard to make it happen?
Hello and welcome to 2026 and the first Cognitive Download of the new year.
In case you missed it, we closed out 2025 with some pretty big news: Brink is now part of Africa Practice.
Part of why this acquisition makes so much sense for us...
The things that changed our minds in 2025
2025 has been a year of shifts. Some planned, some decidedly not planned. The year began with the closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the reverberations of that event have been felt every day since. Brink changed s...
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