Platforms in healthcare innovation ecosystems: The lens of an innovation intermediary

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

doi:10.1109/saibmec.2018.8363191

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“…The healthcare innovation ecosystem involves various actors that interdependently co-create value through their interconnections and interlinkages to achieve sustainable healthcare improvements through innovation and technology development [ 9 ]. These actors often include governments, private sector firms, universities and other public research institutions, individual innovators and entrepreneurs.…”

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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

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“…However, recently, research introducing the known actors involved within the wearables innovation ecosystem has emerged. The findings identify patients, clinicians, healthcare institutions, insurers, government institutions, researchers, industry partners, and policy makers as key actors in the wearables innovation ecosystem [1][3][11] [16]. The discussion around these actors shows promise for increasing attention on the topic of innovation ecosystems for wearables.…”

Section: Innovation Ecosystems -The Healthcare Contextmentioning

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Investigating Innovation Ecosystems for Wearable Medical Devices

Matic

Foley

Asare

2022

2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine &Amp; Biology Society (EMBC)

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Wearable medical technologies (wearables) are a type of digital health technology that have the potential to transform the delivery of healthcare by offering a personalized, predictive, and preventative form of patient care. Unfortunately, the adoption of these technologies remains low, indicating an issue with the innovation ecosystem. Existing literature on innovation ecosystems fails to address wearables and the tradeoffs between profitability and health outcomes, hindering discussion on how to promote the widespread adoption of wearables. This paper reviews and synthesizes literature from the business community and healthcare technology community on innovation ecosystems to contribute towards developing a more robust model of the innovation ecosystem for developing wearables. Future work aims to enrich this conceptualization with interviews of key actors in the innovation ecosystem.Clinical Relevance-This establishes the relevance of innovation ecosystems in enabling the usage and uptake of digital health technologies that meet patient needs.

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“…Recent studies have also employed a value chains perspective to investigate the formation and functioning of IPs in healthcare (27)(28)(29). Recently, the innovation ecosystem perspective has gained traction among researchers of IPs (5,(30)(31)(32). 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 (5,6,(33)(34)(35).…”

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Practices of Engagement in Innovation Platforms: Sustainably Overcoming Complex Societal Challenge Landscapes

Frp¹,

Grobbelaar²

2021

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Background: South Africa’s public healthcare sector is overburdened, especially its under-resourced primary healthcare delivery system. This burden could be relieved by alleviating the population’s ill-health, focusing on the social determinants of health. These include living conditions and levels of social cohesion. In an attempt to address the aforementioned ‘challenge landscape’, this article considers socio-economic empowerment of those marginalised members of society living at the base of the pyramid (BOP) to improve factors contributing to poor health. We propose that Innovation Platforms (IPs) offer opportunities to achieve this by drawing diverse stakeholders together, which should include marginalised individuals, to pool resources and knowledge and collaborate around a specific set of challenges. Method: A Grounded Theory approach is utilised to develop the framework comprising concept definition from a systemized literature review. It is evaluated through various progressive stages through three phases of evaluation: 1) the initial framework was subjected to scrutiny in a theoretical case study, 2) a first-pass semi-structured interview and later four more semi-structured interviews with subject matter experts, and 3) an instrumental case study to refine the framework and to understand its application in a particular situation (this included four stakeholder interviews and a workshop and feedback session with the project champion). Results: This article contributes to the extant literature by addressing the lack of guidance on stakeholder engagement practices critical to the proper functioning of IPs in the context of overcoming the complex challenges associated with social determinants of health. The final output of the study is a refined management tool for stakeholder engagement in IPs. The tool provides practical recommendations to support policy makers, researchers and practitioners in 1) establishing IPs, 2) identifying areas for improvement and 3) identifying reasons for an IP’s failure and lessons to learn.

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Platforms in healthcare innovation ecosystems: The lens of an innovation intermediary

Cited by 10 publications

References 11 publications

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

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

Investigating Innovation Ecosystems for Wearable Medical Devices

Practices of Engagement in Innovation Platforms: Sustainably Overcoming Complex Societal Challenge Landscapes

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