An important determinant of health system performance is contracting. Providers often respond to financial incentives, despite the ethical underpinnings of medicine, and payers can craft contracts to influence performance. Yet contracting is highly imperfect in both single-payer and multi-payer health systems. Arguably, in a competitive, multi-payer environment, contractual innovation may occur...

The paper describes the genesis of National innovation System, its basic components and India’s journey in innovation space, its overall position, government’s efforts and finally suggestions for taking some new steps to shift its orbit from a mere service provider to a nation with strong national Innovation System. Introduction Immediately after World War II, a linear model of science and tech...

Abstract: Innovations, commercialized by new or old established firms, located at the core of industrial renewal process. The innovation concept has suffered transformations, along with the evolution of the models that try to explain and understand the innovation process. The innovative process corresponds to all activities that generate technological changes and the dynamic interaction between...

In this commentary on the exercise of Lehoux et al (this volume) I argue that in discussions on the current challenges of health systems, a better diagnosis of the health system is required. The cause of responsible innovation in health (RIH) requires a better understanding of the dynamics of health systems, in particular how innovation, demand, and responsibility are m...

This article’s main objective was to present a model for measuring research capacity from an intellectual capital-based approach for Colombian higher education institutions ( Instituciones de Educación Superior – IES), forming part of the national science and technology system, in the sense that around 90% of Colombian research groups belong to it. The model should lead to identifying IES capac...

In the article innovation-reproductive and rent-generating function of national welfare is exposed, necessity and real ways of national welfare innovative potential look-ahead analytical estimates methodology and tools’ revision in a context of globalization trends are offered, complex analysis of the results of system parametristic indication of the strategy of national welfare development in ...

This paper explores the relationship between firms’ strategies to share knowledge with their innovation system and innovative performance. The empirical analysis showed that many firms designed strategies to share technological knowledge with competitors, and those firms that shared knowledge with their innovation system earned higher innovative performance than firms that did not share knowled...

entrepreneurship is a thought and process by which an individual or group recognizes new idea and opportunity, and utilizes it successfully. the universities, as a knowledge producer factor, and their diffusion institution play a widespread role in industrial innovation. indeed, the appearance of entrepreneurial university is a response to increasing importance of knowledge in local and nationa...