Article history: Received 7 March 2012 Received in revised form 10 May 2012 Accepted 18 May 2012 Available online xxxx The open innovationmodel embraces the purposiveflowof internal and external ideas as a foundation for innovation and network formation. While the open innovation paradigm has been successfully applied in high-tech settings, there is a lack of research on adopters of open innova...

Technology development is changing where it is possible to master hundreds of thousands of functionalities with one single device. The design of targets of use and purposes for technologies has thus become an increasingly important issue in industrial design, where the innovative value can be found increasingly often in new ways of using technologies rather than in developing new technical arti...

To meet the increasing expectations of citizens, governments have become increasingly open, transparent, accessible and consultative to deliver efficient public services. These trends can be fulfilled through open government data provision and usage. Governments can generate social and economic values by using data-driven open innovation processes, such as by adopting citizens’ ideas or knowled...

The current system of health technology development is characterised by multiple misalignments. The “supply” side (innovation policy-makers, entrepreneurs, investors) and the “demand” side (health policy-makers, regulators, health technology assessment, purchasers) operate under different – and conflicting – logics. The system is less a “pathway” than an unstable ecosystem of multiple interacti...

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...

Business value networks offer new opportunities and chances for innovation-related cooperation. This paper introduces a new innovation process and framework which has been developed in the Texo use case of the Theseus project and which provides a comprehensive yet flexible approach to support multi-stakeholder innovation projects in business ecosystems. One major aim of the proposed framework i...

OBJECTIVES Health technology assessment (HTA) has to innovate to best support changing health system environments and to help provide access to valuable innovation under fiscal constraint. METHODS Issues associated with changing HTA paradigms were identified through scoping and explored through deliberation at a meeting of industry and HTA leaders. RESULTS Five broad areas of change (engage...

This publication is part of the National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Initiative, which called on more than 150 leading researchers, scientists, and policy makers from across the United States to assess and provide expert guidance on 19 priority issues for U.S. health policy. The views presented in this publication and others in the series are those of the a...