Lehoux et al provide a timely and relevant turn on the broad and ongoing discussion around the introduction of health technology and innovation. More specifically, the authors suggest a demand-driven approach to health innovation that starts from identifying challenges and demands at the health system level. In this commentary, I review a number of underlying implications of their study in rela...

In this essay, the author reflects on several personal experiences in projects and advocates Slow Innovation as an alternative to putative need for speed, primacy of efficiency assumption that faster is better. Yes, RI does take time. Let us wear a badge honour. promote reflexivity: make time uneasy questions, vulnerable experiences, awkward moments uncertainty. The essay closes with example ho...

This paper intends based on the current state of the art of Intellectual Capital measurement to picture necessary development towards an integrative reporting instrument for Intellectual Capital. Although Intellectual Capital measurement evolved due to the intention and necessity to disclosure intangible assets meeting the information demands of all stakeholders, it has not quite succeeded in t...

O ne of the goals of our article on the DNA of Socially Responsible Innovation (SRI) was to start a discussion on how to implement SRI in research and development (R&D). We are therefore grateful for the contribution by Dove and Özdemir; we feel that exactly such dialogue is necessary to advance innovation to the next level. We acknowledge that the “ecosystem” of science, technology and society...

Policy makers from around the world are trying to emulate successful innovation systems in order to support economic growth. At the same time, innovation governance systems are being put in place to ensure a better integration of stakeholder views into the research and development process. In Europe, one of the most prominent and newly emerging governance frameworks is called Responsible Resear...

Advances in medical care may occur when a change in practice incorporates a new treatment or methodology. In surgery, this may involve the translation of a completely novel concept into a new procedure or device or the adaptation of existing treatment approaches or technology to a new clinical application. Regardless of the specifics, innovation should have, as its primary goal, the enhancement...

I n their discussion of socially responsible innovation (SRI) and its links to industrial R&D and academic applied research, Flipse et al [1] acknowledge that the nature and purpose of academic and industrial research have changed “to demonstrate social or environmental responsibility to contribute to a more positive corporate image.” We wish the authors had focused more on that last word, “ima...

Responsible Research and Innovation has been authored by an interdisciplinary group with experts from science, innovation, economics, law, governance and ethics’. It was prepared as an intermediate step in the reflection on future policy initiatives regarding Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). Currently, various policy discussions are taking place regarding RRI, both inside and outside ...