Aligning innovation processes in healthcare with health system demands is a societal objective, not always achieved. In line with earlier contributions, Lehoux et al outline priorities for research, public communication, and policy action to achieve this objective. We endorse setting these priorities, while also highlighting a ‘commitment gap’ in collectively addressing system-level challenges....

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...

Tracing the historical emergence of academic/policy discourses shines a light on processes early institutionalisation, informs narratives contemporary self-identity and provides resource from which to imagine alternative futures. Contributing this ambition our paper uses scientometric methods undertake two socio-semantic analyses. First, we identify de-facto origins clustering scientists’ discu...

An ethos of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has been promoted in the last decade, especially within European research. The broad objective is to ensure that research innovation activities align with society’s needs expectations. In parallel, citizen observatories seek mainstream science as a valid paradigm for scientific investigation but additionally model increasing societal partici...