Background While responsible innovation in health (RIH) suggests that health innovations could be purposefully designed to better support health systems, little is known about the system-level challenges that it should address. The goal of this paper is thus to document what is known about health systems’ demand for innovations.   Methods We searched 8 databases to perfo...

Recently there has been an increasing focus on the role of health innovation as a strategic policy instrument of sustainable economic development. The public nature of our system provides Canada with a unique platform to leverage our investments in health discovery and innovation, while also ensuring that Canadian ideas generate added economic value at home.

BACKGROUND This paper combines the literature on public health, on economics of health and on economics of technological innovation to discuss the peculiarities of labour in the health care sector. METHOD AND FRAMEWORK: The starting point is the investigation of the economic peculiarities of medical care. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS This investigation leads to the identification of the prevalence...

1Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 704, Taiwan 2Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan 704, Taiwan 3Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Selangor, Malaysia 4Department of Occupational Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan 7...

GAO reviewed numerous studies of effects of Federal environmental, safety, and health regulations on R&D and innovation. These studies indicate that investment in innovation activities depends on the expected profits the innovation will produce, Anything that tends to lengthen the time before benefits can be realized, limit those benefits, or increase the cost of investment, tends to reduce the...

Innovation is important for the improvement of health care. A small grant innovation funding program was implemented by the Hospital for Sick Children(SickKids) for the Perioperative Services group, awarding relatively small funds (approximately $10 000) in order to stimulate innovation. Of 48 applications,26 (54.2%) different innovation projects were funded for a total allocation of $227 870. ...

A recent paper by Grutters et al makes the case for early health economic modeling in the development of health technologies. A number of examples of the value of early modeling are given, with analyses being performed at different stages in the development of several non-drug health technologies. This commentary acknowledges the contribution of the paper by Grutters et...

Enabling innovation and access to health technologies remains a key strategy in combating infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, a gulf between paying markets and the endemicity of such diseases has contributed to the dearth of R&D in meeting these public health needs. While the pharmaceutical industry views emerging economies as potential new markets, most of...

BACKGROUND European Union strategies and programmes identify research and innovation as a critical dimension for future economic and social development. While European research policy emphasizes support for industry, the health field includes not-for-profit civil society organisations (CSOs) providing social innovation. Yet, the perspectives of CSOs towards health research in Europe are not wel...

Academic health centers (AHCs) now play major roles in the development, adoption, and evaluation of medical technologies; the provision of advice to other entities involved in medical innovation; and the education of current and future practitioners. However, recent and potential health care reform initiatives could make it increasingly difficult for AHCs to continue to play their historical ro...