the values are the frameworks to legitimize human behaviors and to conceptualize socio-cultural phenomena. normalizing human behavior values are formed through three main bases including cognitive, motivate, and arbitrary ones. therefore, the normative values would shape through cognitive, motivate, and arbitrary foundations. behavior formation and stabilization happen in the process of sociali...

Editorials 315 Public policy-making is an increasingly complex undertaking in a globalizing world, especially as policy domains formerly viewed in isolation become more intertwined. This complexity marks the interplay between health, intellectual property and trade policies. Can such interplay be managed so as to enhance the discovery, development and delivery of medical technologies for better...

As state Medicaid programs move toward value-based payment, states interested in improving adult oral health care access and outcomes are testing creative strategies to integrate dental care into primary care delivery. Through State Innovation Model (SIM) grants from the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, for example, participating states can include oral health integration in...

Innovation in healthcare can be associated with social innovation and the mission to contribute to a shared value that benefits not only individuals or organizations but the society as a whole. In this paper, we present the prerequisites of stimulating a market for social innovations by studying the introduction of a national health account. The results show that there is a need to clarify if a...

Both the cloud computing and open innovation paradigms represent recent phenomenon and as such many unanswered questions still persist. Indeed cloud computing’s full innovation potential may only be fully realised through an open innovation approach. In responding to this research gap we propose a new value creation framework which is based on a review of the literature on cloud computing, inno...

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 an...

Innovation events the introduction of new products or processes represent the end of a process of knowledge sourcing and transformation. They also represent the beginning of a process of exploitation which may result in an improvement in the performance of the innovating business. This recursive process of knowledge sourcing, transformation and exploitation comprises the innovation value chain....