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...

Companies are facing an increasingly complex and dynamic business environment, resorting to innovation as alternative increase their competitive capacity. However, the emergence of new technologies change a model economic development, which combines financial aspects with socially responsible environmentally aware perspectives, has generated challenges beyond response capacity these companies. ...

Abstract Digital identity (eID) systems are a crucial piece in the digital services ecosystem. They connect individuals to variety of socioeconomic opportunities but can also reinforce power asymmetries between organizations and individuals. Data collection practices negatively impact an individual’s right privacy, autonomy, self-determination. Protecting individual rights, however, may be at o...

Grand societal challenges (GSCs) represent complex, multi-level, multi-dimensional problems that require concerted efforts by various actors – public, private, and non-profit to be successfully addressed. Businesses alone or in conjunction with governmental organizations are relevant this regard, as they a source of innovation. Responsible innovation (RI) is framework allows for the governance ...