Yes. Studying partial or failed innovations provides insights into constraints, trade-offs, and adaptation strategies. This helps practitioners and scholars understand the experimentation process inherent in governance reform (Avant, Finnemore & Sell 2010). An attempted innovation in the past may have failed but may become newly politically relevant.

For example, multilateral sovereign debt mechanisms have been proposed since the 1970s, with one model from 2001 continuing to inform debates. During FFD4, GGI catalogued over two dozen distinct proposals from the last 25 years combining features from institutions like the IAEA, G20, and WTO.