Making Sense of the Unknown: Using Change Attractors to Explain Innovation Ecosystem Emergence

Ngongoni, Chipo Nancy; Grobbelaar, Sara S.; Schutte, Corné

doi:10.1007/s11213-021-09564-x

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“…The core pillar of the platform’s success was based on governments taking ownership of the installed DHIS2 instances and creating in-country capacity. This has helped build an organic innovation ecosystem consisting of a global community of monitoring and evaluation specialists, health professionals, software developers and such as well as an expert partner network that is part of a community of practice [ 17 ]. Moreover, sustainability and impact issues are at the core of the platform, which has seen a change in the way that the capacity building training academies are undertaken.…”

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Towards a Healthcare Innovation Scaling Framework—The Voice of the Innovator

Ngongoni

William

Makubalo

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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This paper investigates the systemic challenges that African healthcare innovators experience in the quest to scale their innovations. The aim is to aggregate insights and to conceptualize a foundation towards building a framework that can be used as a guide by intermediary organizations and global partners to support collaborative innovation in African countries. These insights were gained from analyzing a dataset of survey responses obtained from a follow-up on 230 innovators who took part in the inaugural WHO Africa Innovation Challenge that was held in 2018. The insights led to the identification of 10 key foundational blocks that assist in ecosystem management in a bid to strengthen national health innovation ecosystems and to improve the sustainability and integration of innovations in the health system.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Healthcare Innovation Scaling Framework—The Voice of the Innovator

Ngongoni

William

Makubalo

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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“…For systems to learn and adapt, crucial process is one of the feedback (Chandler et al, 2019). The feedback loops in innovation ecosystems arise from the interactions between different actors and resources (Ngongoni et al, 2021). The adjustment of certain key factors may have a lasting and effective impact on the system and its stakeholders.…”

Section: System Conditionsmentioning

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Evaluation of Open Science for co-creation of Social Innovations: A conceptual framework

Mačiulienė¹

2022

EPSIR

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Open Science is a rapidly expanding and diversifying field of social innovation with significant implications for and potential benefits to society, policy and various academic research areas. However, much is still unknown about the co-creation processes in Open Science and an overall conceptual framework which aids such understanding is missing. The article aims to address these limitations and identify the key dimensions of an ecosystem allowing co-creation in Open Science to unfold its social and economic impact. The research presented integrates the literature analysis on co-creation in multi-stakeholder ecosystems and suggest that three important dimensions have to be considered in evaluation of Open Science ecosystems: framework conditions, system conditions and outcomes. The proposed model was applied in qualitative analysis of thirty-three Open Science case studies. Based on the results of evaluation, it can be concluded that Open Science landscape is highly heterogenous, fragmented and not fully coordinated. The fragmentation appeared in all dimensions of evaluation. The outcomes of the research provide a first exploratory step in proposing innovative measures to determine the elements of co-creation practices within Open Science context.

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“…Recently, the innovation ecosystem perspective has gained traction among researchers of IPs [17,[40][41][42]. This is because it offers unique opportunities for investigating the dynamics of these innovation architectures, particularly with regard to the interconnected nature of stakeholders of innovation and the evolutionary nature of these stakeholder networks [17,18,[43][44][45]. This is of relevance to the proposed research because of the evolution observed in IPs, which has practical implications regarding platform governance, facilitation, focus and participating actors [13,15,16,46].…”

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A Framework of Engagement Practices for Stakeholders Collaborating around Complex Social Challenges

Edlmann

Grobbelaar

2021

Sustainability

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South Africa’s interventions to address complex social challenges rely on coordination across several sectors and between different levels of government and society. Improved alignment, planning and coordination are needed when addressing the causal factors of these social challenges. These causal factors include the environments in which people live and their behaviours. Furthermore, emphasis is placed on the recurring engagement of civil society, especially of marginalized stakeholders, as participants in the efforts to address the challenges. The study draws from the promise shown by stakeholder networks, termed Innovation Platforms, in other Sub-Saharan Africa countries to address such complex social challenges. The study aimed to improve the understanding of how a stakeholder network’s engagement practices impact the effectiveness of the network. To this end, a conceptual framework and management tool for stakeholder engagement in IPs is proposed. The study followed the conceptual framework analysis procedure to develop, evaluate and refine the conceptual framework. The article describes the core research outcomes of the framework development approach, starting with a systematized literature review to identify core concepts, followed by interviews with experts and a case study to refine the framework content. The case study applied the framework to develop recommendations for improved engagement in a stakeholder network which has been established around the challenge of vagrancy in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The result of the approach is a multidimensional framework for conceptualizing stakeholder engagement practices in a variety of contexts. The focus of the framework content remains on the practices of engagement which enable effective and fruitful stakeholder interactions within and around a network. The study delivered valuable insights into the nature of some development initiatives in South Africa and the impact of stakeholder engagement on them.

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Making Sense of the Unknown: Using Change Attractors to Explain Innovation Ecosystem Emergence

Cited by 5 publications

References 37 publications

Towards a Healthcare Innovation Scaling Framework—The Voice of the Innovator

Towards a Healthcare Innovation Scaling Framework—The Voice of the Innovator

Evaluation of Open Science for co-creation of Social Innovations: A conceptual framework

A Framework of Engagement Practices for Stakeholders Collaborating around Complex Social Challenges

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