Cláudia Campos, Robbin Kappelhof, Joana Carrilho, Luis Midão, Diogo Henriques, Elísio Costa
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Abstract
Introduction Twinnings are cross-border knowledge exchange activities where two or more organisations learn from each other’s experiences and are often used as a scaling up mechanism. Objectives This paper discusses the importance of twinning activities in scaling up by promoting community building, knowledge sharing and innovation transfer among stakeholders in European countries. It explores the role of twinnings in the scaling up model of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing) and the Innovation Networks for Scaling Active and Healthy Ageing (IN-4-AHA) project. Methods The study employed a qualitative approach, drawing insights from various sources, including the Scale AHA study (2017), the IN-4-AHA’s scaling up model and twinning reports. Results The findings reveal that twinning activities provide stakeholders with a unique opportunity to learn from the know-how of other like-minded partners, improve the quality of their work and iterate on their innovations. They also highlight that twinnings are particularly relevant for some stages in the scaling up process, such as in the assessment of a network of potential partners and during the evaluation of the environment, the innovation could potentially be transferred to. Conclusion Twinnings are highly regarded as community-building and knowledge-sharing activities with clear advantages for companies and other stakeholder groups. Including twinning activities in the scaling up model has proven benefits for companies and projects that have a strong need for community building and innovation transfer. Data sharing not applicable as no data sets generated and/or analysed for this study.
引言 结对活动是两个或两个以上组织相互学习经验的跨境知识交流活动,通常被用作扩大规模的机制。目的 本文讨论了结对活动通过促进欧洲国家利益相关者之间的社区建设、知识共享和创新转让在扩大规模方面的重要性。本文探讨了结对活动在 "欧洲老有所事和健康老龄化创新伙伴关系"(European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing)和 "加强老有所事和健康老龄化创新网络"(IN-4-AHA)项目的推广模式中的作用。方法 本研究采用定性方法,从各种来源汲取见解,包括 "Scale AHA 研究"(2017 年)、IN-4-AHA 的推广模式和结对报告。结果 研究结果表明,结对活动为利益相关者提供了一个独特的机会,使他们能够学习其他志同道合的合作伙伴的专门技能,提高工作质量,并对创新进行迭代。调查结果还强调,结对活动与扩大规模过程中的某些阶段特别相关,例如在评估潜在合作伙伴网络和评估创新可能转移到的环境期间。结论 结对活动被视为社区建设和知识共享活动,对企业和其他利益相关群体具有明显的优势。事实证明,将结对活动纳入扩大规模模式,对那些非常需要社区建设和创新转让的公司和项目大有裨益。数据共享不适用,因为本研究没有生成和/或分析数据集。
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Healthcare is undergoing a revolution and novel medical technologies are being developed to treat patients in better and faster ways. Mobile revolution has put a handheld computer in pockets of billions and we are ushering in an era of mHealth. In developed and developing world alike healthcare costs are a concern and frugal innovations are being promoted for bringing down the costs of healthcare. BMJ Innovations aims to promote innovative research which creates new, cost-effective medical devices, technologies, processes and systems that improve patient care, with particular focus on the needs of patients, physicians, and the health care industry as a whole and act as a platform to catalyse and seed more innovations. Submissions to BMJ Innovations will be considered from all clinical areas of medicine along with business and process innovations that make healthcare accessible and affordable. Submissions from groups of investigators engaged in international collaborations are especially encouraged. The broad areas of innovations that this journal aims to chronicle include but are not limited to: Medical devices, mHealth and wearable health technologies, Assistive technologies, Diagnostics, Health IT, systems and process innovation.