---
id: "action-introduce-innovation-grants"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ 5. Promote a healthy dose of AI-related experimentation."]
tags: ["experimentation", "culture"]
related: ["framework-5-ways-ai-collaboration", "entity-amy-edmondson"]
action: "Introduce incentives such as 'innovation grants' for employee-led AI projects to encourage calculated risk-taking."
outcome: "A culture of experimentation that sparks creative, beyond-baseline applications of AI technology."
speakers: ["Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic"]
sources: ["adoption"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-adoption"
originDay: 9
articleStem: "hbr-edu-36-team-collaborate-with-ai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2024/11/set-your-team-up-to-collaborate-with-ai-successfully"
sourceTitle: "Set Your Team Up to Collaborate with AI Successfully"
---
# Introduce AI Innovation Grants

**Action:** Introduce incentives such as **'innovation grants'** for employee-led AI projects to encourage calculated risk-taking.

**How:** To foster a culture of risk-taking and experimentation, create formal innovation grants that fund employee-led AI projects. This provides a safe, sanctioned environment for employees to take calculated risks and find creative uses for AI without fear of repercussions if the project fails.

**Outcome:** A culture of experimentation that sparks creative, beyond-baseline applications of AI. This is pillar 5 of [[framework-5-ways-ai-collaboration]], grounded in the psychological-safety research of [[entity-amy-edmondson]] (reframe failure as intelligent, praiseworthy learning rather than blameworthy error).