Innovation has the potential to enable conservation science and practice to keep pace with the escalating threats to global biodiversity, but this potential will only be realized if such innovations are designed and developed to fulfill specific needs and solve well-defined conservation problems. We propose that business-world strategies for assessing the practicality of innovation can be applied to assess the viability of innovations, such as new technology, for addressing biodiversity conservation challenges. Here, we outline a five-step, "lean start-up" based approach for considering conservation innovation from a business-planning perspective. Then, using three prominent conservation initiatives - Marxan (software), Conservation Drones (technology support), and Mataki (wildlife-tracking devices) - as case studies, we show how considering proposed initiatives from the perspective of a conceptual business model can support innovative technologies in achieving desired conservation outcomes.

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确定将保护带入创新时代的技术解决方案

创新有可能使保护科学和实践跟上对全球生物多样性不断升级的威胁，但只有设计和开发此类创新以满足特定需求并解决明确定义的保护问题，才能实现这种潜力。我们建议，评估创新实用性的商业世界战略可用于评估创新的可行性，例如新技术，以应对生物多样性保护挑战。在这里，我们概述了一个基于“精益创业”的五步方法，用于从业务规划的角度考虑保护创新。然后，使用三个著名的保护计划——Marxan（软件）、保护无人机（技术支持）和 Mataki（野生动物追踪设备）——作为案例研究，