Public sector innovation research: What’s next?

Potts, Jason; Kastelle, Tim

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“…One of the dogmas of the economics of innovation is that companies generate innovation, whereas the public sector suffers from what Potts and Kastelle (2010) call an innovation deficit or challenge. Nevertheless, recent years have seen a growing awareness that innovation is not restricted to the private sector, with public sectors such as education and healthcare, among others, also considered sources of innovation (OECD/Eurostat, 2005;Djellal and Gallouj, 2005;Koch et al, 2006;Petty and Heimer, 2011;Hughes et al, 2011).…”

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The fourth mission of hospitals and the role of researchers as innovation drivers in the public healthcare sector

Rey-Rocha¹,

Navarro²

2014

Rev. esp. doc. cient.

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Citation/ Cómo citar este artículo: Rey-Rocha, J.; López-Navarro, I. (2014). The fourth mission of hospitals and the role of researchers as innovation drivers in the public healthcare sector. Revista Española de Documentación Científica, 37(1):e028. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/redc.2014.1.1062Abstract: This article explores the role of researchers as innovation drivers in the public healthcare sector. The Triple Helix model is proposed for the analysis of the role of public hospitals in innovation processes. We discuss the role of public hospitals in innovation and in economic and social development, and identify this role as a 'fourth mission' of hospitals in addition to their widely recognized threefold function of healthcare provision, education and research. We discuss the evolution of hospital administration from healthcare towards the 'entrepreneurial hospital' model. More specifically, we investigate the extent to which the incorporation of full-time researchers can help to foster innovation at research and healthcare centres affiliated with the Spanish National Health System. Data were obtained through a survey of researchers, research group leaders and heads of departments and centres where these researchers worked, as well as through content analysis of researchers' annual reports.Keywords: Health innovation; biomedical research; full-time researchers; hospitals; public healthcare sector; R&D&I programme evaluation. La cuarta misión de los hospitales y el papel de los investigadores como promotores de la innovación en el sector sanitario públicoResumen: Se estudia el papel de los investigadores como promotores de la innovación en el sector sanitario público. Se propone el modelo de la Triple Hélice para el estudio del papel de los hospitales en los procesos de innovación. Se identifica la innovación y la contribución al desarrollo económico y social como la 'cuarta misión' de los hospitales públicos, adicional a su triple misión asistencial, docente e investigadora. Este enfoque aboga por una evolución desde el modelo asistencial tradicional hacia el modelo del 'hospital emprendedor'. A través del Programa FIS/Miguel Servet, se investiga en qué medida la incorporación de investigadores contribuye a fomentar la innovación en los centros del Sistema Nacional de Salud español. Los datos proceden de sendas encuestas a los investigadores y a los responsables de los grupos y de los distintos departamentos y centros a los que éstos se incorporaron, así como del análisis de contenido de sus informes anuales.Palabras clave: Innovación en salud; investigación biomédica; investigadores; hospitales; sector sanitario público; evaluación de programas de I+D+i.

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The fourth mission of hospitals and the role of researchers as innovation drivers in the public healthcare sector

Rey-Rocha¹,

Navarro²

2014

Rev. esp. doc. cient.

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“…If this is done, future research in the area could focus on the way problems or demands are identified in municipalities, and on the way innovation is evaluated. Another area of future study-identified by Potts and Kastelle (2010)-would be to focus on the motivations and barriers, within municipal organizations, for innovative behavior by individuals or departments: We plan to conduct detailed case studies of some of the UMQ participants to gain insight into these questions, and into the learning processes that contribute to municipal innovation.…”

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“…The nature and variety of municipal goals and motivations differentiates them from SMEs. It should be acknowledged, though, that a pervasive goal of municipal entrepreneurialism is economic growth (Evans 2009;Harvey 1989;Leyden and Link 2015) and that there are calls for public administrations to mimic the private sector (Hansen 2011;Osborne and Brown 2011 5 ;Potts and Kastelle 2010): Critiques of municipal entrepreneurialism are leveled at this market-driven focus, a focus maybe contingent upon wider scale political-economic processes but which, we argue, is not inherent to entrepreneurship or to innovation (Clarke 2012;Conill et al 2012;GibsonGraham, Cameron, and Healy 2013).…”

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Conceptualizing Nonmarket Municipal Entrepreneurship: Everyday Municipal Innovation and the Roles of Metropolitan Context, Internal Resources, and Learning

Shearmur

Poirier

2016

Urban Affairs Review

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Public-sector innovation and entrepreneurship usually refer to policies undertaken by public administrations or driven by urban regimes in view of furthering economic development. Some researchers study these processes from a management perspective; others critique them as vehicles of neoliberalization. However, scant attention has been paid to everyday technical and service innovation undertaken by municipal departments and employees. Although this innovation is usually not driven by markets, municipalities' small size and geographic rootedness suggest it can be apprehended using concepts from firm-level studies. Our study of a municipal innovation competition in Quebec provides examples of everyday municipal innovation. We find that municipalities' internal capacity determines their innovativeness, that learning occurs, and that the motivation and evaluation of everyday municipal innovation are not market-based. This calls into question the appropriation of the term urban entrepreneurship by urban

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“…As a participant in the CCI Winter School at Queensland University of Technology in 2012, I had the opportunity to discuss my increasing level of participation in the New Zealand documentary production ecology and received strong support and encouragement for a practice-led approach to research. I was also challenged to consider initiatives such as Transmedia NZ and Loading Docs as 'innovation experiments' (Potts & Kastelle, 2010).…”

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Launching Loading Docs: A reflection on the first year of a documentary innovation experiment from a producer/researcher perspective

Jackson¹

2015

PJR

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Loading Docs is a New Zealand documentary initiative that supports the development, production and distribution of three-minute documentary films. Loading Docs is also a development and innovation initiative, building the capabilities of local filmmakers to fund, promote and distribute their work and increase their presence online. More broadly, Loading Docs aims to create a supportive community of filmmakers, increase opportunities for feature documentary development, and cultivate audience awareness of and appetite for New Zealand documentaries. This paper presents an account of the development of Loading Docs from the author's perspective as co-founder, co-executive producer and practice-led researcher. Reflecting on the experience of acting as both researcher and producer in the capacity of an experimental initiative, this article argues that research/practice partnerships create beneficial opportunities for knowledge-transfer and innovation.

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Public sector innovation research: What’s next?

Cited by 124 publications

References 37 publications

The fourth mission of hospitals and the role of researchers as innovation drivers in the public healthcare sector

The fourth mission of hospitals and the role of researchers as innovation drivers in the public healthcare sector

Conceptualizing Nonmarket Municipal Entrepreneurship: Everyday Municipal Innovation and the Roles of Metropolitan Context, Internal Resources, and Learning

Launching Loading Docs: A reflection on the first year of a documentary innovation experiment from a producer/researcher perspective

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