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The need for a dynamic approach to health system-centered innovations comment on "What health system challenges should responsible innovation in health address? Insights from an international scoping review" Institute of Tropical Medicine Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Antwerp
Lehoux and colleagues plea for a health systems perspective to evaluate innovations. Since many innovations and their scale-up strategies emerge from processes that are not (centrally) steered, we plea for any assessment with a dynamic, instead of a sequential, approach. We provide further guidance on how to adopt such dynamic approach, in order to better un-derstand and steer innovations for better health systems. A systems-level challenge ...
Sustainable product innovation: the importance of the front-end stage in the innovation process Ghent University
The very early phase in the product innovation process, the so-called front-end of innovaU+2010 tion (FEI), is the stage of the innovation process where product strategy formulation, opporU+2010 tunity identification, idea generation, idea selection and concept development take place and decisions about new product development are taken [1]. These first phases in the engiU+2010 neering design process have the largest impact on the end result of ...
Trends in Sustainable Energy Innovation: transition teams for sustainable innovation Hasselt University
Energy transition is necessary, given that the share of fossil fuels in the total energy production ensures that we will not achieve the climate goals as set out in the Paris Agreements. Moreover, this energy transition is not only necessary because of the climate aspect, but also because of the geopolitical dependence on the supply and the easily accessible stocks of fossil fuels are in danger of being quickly exhausted. But this energy ...
Reframing the role of lead users in radical innovations: an open innovation perspective Hasselt University
Developing a strong relation with lead-users can have a strong effect on the commercial success of radical innovations. We consider lead-user interaction as an important yet underexplored research topic in open innovation. In particular, we seize three themes defining the role of lead users. First, open innovation requires that the role of lead users is not analysed only at the dyad level but also at the value network level. Second, we use the ...
The spatial organisation of innovation: open innovation, external knowledge relations and urban structure Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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What is the impact of innovation on output in healthcare with a special focus on treatment innovations in radiotherapy? A literature review KU Leuven
OBJECTIVE: To analyse how often innovations in healthcare are evaluated regarding output, especially in radiotherapy. Output was defined as either survival, toxicity, safety, service, efficiency or cost-effectiveness. METHODS: A systematic literature review was conducted, using three search strategies: (1) innovations in general healthcare; (2) radiotherapy-specific innovations, i.e. organizational innovations and general implementation of ...
Innovation strategies, process and product innovations and growth: Firm-level evidence from Brazil KU Leuven
Using World Bank ICS 2000-2002 data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper identifies innovation strategies of firms - in particular internal development ("technology make") and external acquisition ("technology buy)" - and their effect on successful process and product innovations. It subsequently explores the importance of process and product innovations for firm growth. Successful process and product innovations occur mostly through ...
Resiliencia y memorias en Perú durante la pandemia: innovaciones y continuidades en barrios y comunidades// Resilience and memories in Peru during the pandemic: innovations and continuities in neighborhoods and communities KU Leuven
Peru is one of the countries most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, where the health crisis quickly provoked a serious socio-economic and political crisis. The fragile Peruvian state was unable to build an effective response to this multifaceted crisis, in this context, we defend the hypothesis that forms of affectivity, solidarity, memory and collective resilience related to the recent past (1980-1990) were reactivated in many rural and urban ...
Workplace innovation and social innovation: an introduction KU Leuven
Copyright © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This is the introduction to this special issue of World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development (WREMSD) dedicated to workplace innovation and social innovation related to work and organisation. As technological and business model innovations alone are not sufficient to enhance opportunities for businesses and employment, awareness is rising that better use should be made ...