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...

background following the tenets of world polity and innovation diffusion theories, i focus on the coercive and mimetic forces that influence the diffusion of mental health policy across nations. international organizations’ mandates influence government behavior. dependency on external resources, namely foreign aid, also affects governments’ formulation of national policy. and finally, mounting...

In this essay, the author reflects on several personal experiences in projects and advocates Slow Innovation as an alternative to putative need for speed, primacy of efficiency assumption that faster is better. Yes, RI does take time. Let us wear a badge honour. promote reflexivity: make time uneasy questions, vulnerable experiences, awkward moments uncertainty. The essay closes with example ho...

We describe the institutionalisation of responsible innovation (RI) over last decade at Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) universities funded by it as a focal point for RI in UK. Drawing on organisational theory we identify factors influencing dynamics institutionalisation, including forces legitimation, entrepreneurship decoupling. report significant EPSRC prior to 201...

This open access book offers a unique and practically oriented study of organisational national conditions for implementing RRI policies practices shows how different contexts provide challenges opportunities bringing into practice