Collaborative innovation in healthcare: a case study of hospitals as innovation platforms

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International Journal of Value Chain Management Pub Date : 2020-02-26 DOI:10.1504/ijvcm.2020.105475

Pauliina Hyrkäs, Lotta Haukipuro, Satu Väinämö, M. Iivari, A. Sachinopoulou, J. Majava

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Abstract

Rising healthcare costs and vast business opportunities in health markets have resulted in a great demand to enhance innovation creation. However, innovation development in healthcare is challenging because of the fragmented and complicated context. Potential means to tackle the challenges include utilising the concepts of open innovation and co-creation, which require organisations to develop new roles and relationships with multiple stakeholders. This paper analyses a 12-month co-creation project where a new collaboration model for healthcare innovations was developed by a hospital, research partners, and companies. We demonstrate how organisations experiment with collaborative innovation in the healthcare context, and what was learned from this experimentation. The study utilises an action research approach and a case study strategy. The co-creation model applied can produce innovations that meet the end-users' needs, but successful implementation requires careful planning, creating separate development paths for idea-type and more mature solutions, and the commitment of project participants.

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医疗保健协同创新：以医院为创新平台的案例研究

医疗成本的上升和健康市场的巨大商机导致了对加强创新创造的巨大需求。然而，由于分散和复杂的环境，医疗保健领域的创新发展具有挑战性。应对挑战的潜在手段包括利用开放创新和共同创造的概念，这需要组织与多个利益相关者发展新的角色和关系。本文分析了一个为期12个月的共创项目，该项目由医院、研究合作伙伴和公司开发了一种新的医疗创新合作模式。我们展示了组织如何在医疗保健背景下进行合作创新实验，以及从实验中学到了什么。该研究采用了行动研究方法和案例研究策略。所应用的共创模式可以产生满足最终用户需求的创新，但成功实施需要仔细规划，为想法类型和更成熟的解决方案创建单独的发展路径，以及项目参与者的承诺。

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International Journal of Value Chain Management MANAGEMENT-

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1.20

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： Today"s businesses have become extremely complex. The interplay of the three Cs, viz. consumers, competition and convergence, has thrown up new challenges for organisations all over the world. Sensitivity of economies to the external environment coupled with the turbulent process of globalisation has added the highest degree of uncertainty and unpredictability to business processes. To top it all, the effect of globalisation has shifted the balance of power in favour of the customer, though it may have opened a plethora of opportunities for all, in the form of variety and choice. For a variety of reasons, the pressures of competitive forces have enhanced product changes, supercharged by shortening product and technology development lifecycles.