ARC Innovation Lab
Entrepreneurial R&D for Social Innovation
Combining applied research with entrepreneurial product development to identify, test, and build better solutions to complex social challenges.
Entrepreneurial R&D for Social Innovation
What if our most persistent social challenges contain overlooked opportunities to create both social and economic value?
ARC exists to discover and develop those opportunities
We combine research, human-centered design, real-world experimentation, and entrepreneurial product development to move promising ideas from question to evidence to implementation.
Why ARC Innovation Lab?
Social Innovation has an R&D Gap
Too often, promising ideas for social change never move beyond the drawing board—not because they lack potential, but because our social impact ecosystem makes experimentation difficult. While other sectors have the infrastructure to move promising ideas forward, social impact leaders often lack a practical pathway for turning an insight into an idea, an idea into an experiment, and a successful experiment into something built to last.
ARC Innovation Lab is a place where promising ideas can be investigated, tested, developed, and, when the evidence supports it, brought into the world as sustainable solutions.
Get in Touch
Do you have a challenge that needs exploring, a promising idea to test, or just curious how ARC can help you drive social innovation in your community.
Contact us!