Innovative Partnership Research Articles

Wide lens 이론을 기반으로 한 해외 혁신 기업 비교 연구

This study was based on the topic of why countless innovation efforts by companies fail. The purpose of this study is to analyze cooperative innovation cases and present implications for overseas companies that have succeeded in innovation based on Ron Adner's wide lens theory (2012). Through this study, we present insights that companies should think deeply about not only their own innovations, but also joint innovations with innovation ecosystem partners, and make integrated joint efforts. Through the case of overseas companies, it can be confirmed that not only the innovation efforts and development of the company itself, but also the importance of the value chain and innovation partners and the formation of a joint front are important factors. It is presented by dividing it into three areas of wide lens theory. The implications are as follows. First, for a company's own innovation, it is necessary to structure the company culture and organization that are not afraid of failure. Second, to strengthen joint innovation, building positive and cooperative relationships with partner research institutes is of paramount importance, such as Pfizer's vaccine development case. Third, it is necessary to find partnership opportunities and establish strategic convergence that develops in order to strengthen value chain innovation.

디지털 전환시대에 따른 ICT 제조기업의 혁신생태계 및 혁신성과에 관한 연구

Recently, since the digital transformation waves have impacted the economic system and industry structure, conventional technology and business have been changed via the convergence of manufacturing and service, general business and platform business, etc. In this regard, this paper explores the innovation ecosystem and innovation performance of ICT manufacturing firms with respect to government innovation and R&D policy. This paper attempts to utilize cross-sectional data from 333 ICT manufacturing firms and to build two different types of innovation ecosystem models and the innovation performance model. First, the findings show that in the knowledge spillover channel model, ICT manufacturing firms tend to use IPRs and collaboration channels rather than the public domain channel. Second, in the innovation partnership model, ICT manufacturing firms prefer partnerships with private companies that are their buyers within the supply chain of the high-tech industry rather than utilizing their internal innovation resources and even local universities nearby. Third, the findings also show that in the innovation performance model, the product innovation performance of ICT manufacturing firms is highly associated with patents and R&D spending. Moreover, the product innovation performance of ICT manufacturing firms has a positive relationship with non-financial support of the government such as HR, technique, certifications, etc., but it has a negative relationship with the direct financial support of the government because it is more likely to consider about a moral hazard problem.

Technology Readiness Levels for vaccine and drug development in animal health: From discovery to life cycle management.

Public research and innovation initiatives in animal health aim to deliver key knowledge, services and products that improve the control of animal infectious diseases and animal welfare to deliver on global challenges including public health threats, environmental concerns and food security. The Technology Readiness Level (TRL) is a popular innovation policy instrument to monitor the maturity of upcoming new technologies in publicly funded research projects. However, while general definition of the 9 levels on the TRL-scale enable uniform discussions of technical maturity across different types of technology, these definitions are very generic which hampers concrete interpretation and application. Here, we aligned innovation pipeline stages as used in the animal health industry for the development of new vaccines or drugs with the TRL scale, resulting in TRL for animal health (TRLAH). This more bespoke scale can help to rationally allocate funding for animal health research from basic to applied research, map innovation processes, monitor progress and develop realistic progress expectations across the time span of a research and innovation project. The TRLAH thus become an interesting instrument to enhance the translation of public research results into industrial and societal innovation and foster public-private partnerships in animal health.

PARTNERING TO DEVELOP COUNTY-LEVEL DATA PROFILES

Abstract Building robust data systems that include information on the health of older adults is crucial to developing programs and services that meet their health and social needs. Organizations and agencies can use this information to target resources and identify community partners, as well as using data to support grant applications. But there are challenges to building such systems, even within the public health system, due to lack of expertise, funding, and access to underlying data sources. Through its Age-Friendly Public Health Systems initiative, Trust for America’s Health’s has worked directly with several state public health departments to explore opportunities to develop and expand their county-level data profiles on older adults. This session will highlight the unique collaborations and partnerships between departments of health and other institutions, including academia, to develop data profiles. Through these innovative partnerships, departments of health have been able to develop dynamic data profiles that they share with aging services providers to discuss strategies to support their older adults in their communities. Best practices and lessons learned through the profile development process will also be discussed.

THE POWER OF RURAL PARTNERSHIP: MEETING NEEDS AND FOSTERING INNOVATION THROUGH THE WYOMING GWEP

Abstract The challenges of supporting the health and social needs of older adults and caregivers in rural and frontier areas are well-documented. It is common for rural older adults to experience barriers in accessing geriatric specialists, care coordination services, and caregiver support and education programs. The Wyoming Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (WyGWEP) is an innovative partnership comprising an academic geriatrics program, primary care delivery sites, single-unit on aging representing community-based organizations, and a tribal health program. This partnership, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, provides the infrastructure to assess needs, provide education and training, create programs to address gaps in care, implement practice innovation, and advocate for needs of rural older adults. This symposium includes five presentations detailing the unique projects of the WyGWEP partnership and the impact of this collaborative work on a variety of stakeholders. The results of a mixed-methods evaluation of the WyGWEP partnership will describe the benefits to the partners and areas for growth. A collaborative effort to assess the needs of older adults informs recommendations to support rural aging in place. Schenck et al. will describe the adaptation of the widespread ECHO model for use with dementia caregivers in rural and remote locations. Representatives from Wyoming’s only Program for All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) will explain the cost of a recent decision to de-fund and close this important program. Finally, the impact of a novel Chronic Care Management implementation program will be discussed, including sustainable billing revenue produced by rural primary care clinics.

Green Innovation in Construction Industry and in Public Works Procurement in Hungary - Review

The construction industry is an important industry that determines the national economy of almost every country. Due to its productivity, the number of people it employs, and the number of enterprises involved, it is also decisive for other industries. The facilities completed as a result of public works often outlast their dreamers by decades, so it is very important that the construction industry is open to the innovative development of its operations, products and elements that provide infrastructure for others. The basic hypothesis of our study is that although a rapid regeneration took place in the construction industry after the pandemic situation, which is also supported by the number of public procurement procedures for Hungarian public works, the proportion of procedures using innovative solutions is low, as is the case with sustainability aspects. We also assumed that the share of public procurement procedures integrating R&D results and innovation partnerships is low compared to domestic public procurement.

Directions of development of public-private partnerships in innovation

Directions of development of public-private partnerships in innovation

Special Issue Introduction: Addressing Healthcare Inequities in Intellectual Disability and Developmental Disabilities.

Special Issue Introduction: Addressing Healthcare Inequities in Intellectual Disability and Developmental Disabilities.

European Innovation Partnership – Plant Health

European Innovation Partnership – Plant Health

Book Review: EU Public Procurement and Innovation: The Innovation Partnership Procedure and Harmonization Challenges, by Pedro Cerqueira Gomes. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021)

Book Review: <i>EU Public Procurement and Innovation: The Innovation Partnership Procedure and Harmonization Challenges</i>, by Pedro Cerqueira Gomes. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021)

How Frugal Innovation can empower citizens to make their life simpler and more sustainable. Insights from two ongoing initiatives

Frugal innovation, well managed, offers numerous opportunities for the development of novel solutions with the participation of ordinary citizens, including those belonging to marginalized or vulnerable groups. Since it is about developing solutions that are not only useful and durable, but also affordable, with a clear economy of means, it is an option that cities and regions should consider, as they normally struggle with tight budgets and a lack of inspiring ideas while trying to keep up with a rapidly changing environment. Unlocking the creative potential of citizens in collaboration with the business sector through frugal innovation challenges, for example, can result in better services and products and help reposition the city or region as a hub of innovation, thereby attracting new talent and investments.The European project FRANCIS aims to develop frugal innovations through open innovation challenges involving different groups of citizens with the support of scientists and industry throughout the innovation process. Citizens can join the challenges through an online and face-to-face platform. Overall, FRANCIS does everything possible to activate and motivate civil society to participate in these challenges and ensure that potential barriers are overcome. In addition, behavioural testing and analysis is used to understand the most frequently encountered barriers at different stages of the frugal innovation process and to generate effective mitigation strategies. The project also aims to align the challenges with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) indicators.To maximize its impact, FRANCIS works consistently to encourage and engage interested cities and regions in the frugal innovation process together with their citizens. The city of Bielefeld in Germany is one of the pioneers that wants to increase its innovation potential through the establishment of international innovation partnerships, which in turn will attract and retain the highest level of talent and expertise.This paper will present the tools developed to date by FRANCIS project to guide and support the frugal innovation process with citizens so that it leads to a successful outcome, in addition to commenting on the Bielefeld case as an example for other cities interested in following the same path of innovation.

Improving maternal and child health outcomes through a community involvement strategy in Kabula location, Bungoma County, Kenya.

Maternal, fetal and neonatal mortality are higher in low-income compared to high-income countries due to weak health systems including poor access and utilization of health services. Despite enormous recent improvements in maternal, neonatal and under five children health indicators, more rapid progress is needed to meet the targets including the Sustainable Development Goal 3(SDG). In Kenya these indicators are still high and comprehensive systems are needed to attain these goals. To facilitate innovative partnerships in health care provision and to assess trends in access, utilization and quality of Maternal and Child Health care through the health systems approach using community owned initiatives including use of community owned resourse persons (CORPs), establishment of Community Based Organisations (CBOs) and Income Generating Activities(IGAs). This was implemented in Kabula location, Bungoma County, Kenya between January 2016 and April 2019. Pregnant women, newborns and under-five children living in Kabula location identified by Community Owned Resource Persons (CORPs). A prospective study to show trends in maternal, neonatal and infant outcomes through the implementation of community owned initiatives. General, under five and antenatal clinic attendance increased four fold in 2016,2017 and 2018. There was a 76% full immunization coverage with 97% BCG and 84% Polio coverage respectively among children studied. There was an 87% facility delivery rate among the pregnant women enrolled in the study. Trends in Maternal and under-five health indicators in Kabula showed improvements over the study period following the implementation of the community owned initiatives and community participation. The community owned initiatives as implemented in this study is useful in primary care and universal health coverage programs in health care delivery systems in LMICs.

Bauforschung: Woher – Wohin

Abstract The increasing international acceptance of the term ›building research‹ dates back to 1924. The basic approach of understanding historical buildings through building surveys and precise observations is older. To this day, the core of the method has remained working directly on the object in question: the building itself is the main source, regardless of the period and epoch. The graphic representation of the inventory and the scientific results on building history, building techniques and reconstruction play a key role. This small subject has proven itself in many fields, from university research to the preservation of historical monuments, but is currently facing great challenges. The rapid development of new technologies and innovative partner subjects demands a review of methods, including questions of future publication types and languages. New fields of activity are opening up: architecture after 1945 and the increasing destruction caused by war. The educational situation at the universities is becoming more and more uncertain.

The European Prevention of Alzheimer's Dementia Programme: An Innovative Medicines Initiative-funded partnership to facilitate secondary prevention of Alzheimer's disease dementia.

Tens of millions of people worldwide will develop Alzheimer's disease (AD), and only by intervening early in the preclinical disease can we make a fundamental difference to the rates of late-stage disease where clinical symptoms and societal burden manifest. However, collectively utilizing data, samples, and knowledge amassed by large-scale projects such as the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)-funded European Prevention of Alzheimer's Dementia (EPAD) program will enable the research community to learn, adapt, and implement change. In the current article, we define and discuss the substantial assets of the EPAD project for the scientific community, patient population, and industry, describe the EPAD structure with a focus on how the public and private sector interacted and collaborated within the project, reflect how IMI specifically supported the achievements of the above, and conclude with a view for future. The EPAD project was a €64-million investment to facilitate secondary prevention of AD dementia research. The project recruited over 2,000 research participants into the EPAD longitudinal cohort study (LCS) and included over 400 researchers from 39 partners. The EPAD LCS data and biobank are freely available and easily accessible via the Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative's (ADDI) AD Workbench platform and the University of Edinburgh's Sample Access Committee. The trial delivery network established within the EPAD program is being incorporated into the truly global offering from the Global Alzheimer's Platform (GAP) for trial delivery, and the almost 100 early-career researchers who were part of the EPAD Academy will take forward their experience and learning from EPAD to the next stage of their careers. Through GAP, IMI-Neuronet, and follow-on funding from the Alzheimer's Association for the data and sample access systems, the EPAD assets will be maintained and, as and when sponsors seek a new platform trial to be established, the learnings from EPAD will ensure that this can be developed to be even more successful than this first pan-European attempt.

How to Find the Right Partner? Open Innovation Partner Selection Process

The aim of this paper is to gain an understanding of the partner selection process for open innovation. The inability to choose partners can lead to problems such as opportunistic behavior, the failure of open innovation, and a reluctance to collaborate. Therefore, partner selection is crucial in open innovation. Attention is directed to the determining factors that must be considered in the selection of a partner. The contents of the paper are mainly based on in-depth interviews with experts and practitioners who represent both organizations and individuals as actors in open innovation activities. The results show that complementarity, compatibility, and trust are important considerations in selecting the right partner. The implication of this research is that a managerial approach is needed that supports the company’s ability to find and evaluate external sources of knowledge to support innovation. The originality of this article is to provide an understanding that the existence of an organization in a network helps organizations access external knowledge resources. Involving external parties in the company’s innovation process accelerates innovation. In this case, getting the right partner is very important.

Commentary: Improving Primary Care Through an Innovative Academic-Practice Partnership Including Baccalaureate Nursing Student-Based Telehealth Competencies.

University of the Incarnate Word Ila Faye Miller School of Nursing, San Antonio, Texas. Correspondence: Lorena Paul, DNP, MEd, GCNE, RN-BC, University of the Incarnate Word Ila Faye Miller School of Nursing, San Antonio, TX 78209 ([email protected]). The authors thank Barrio Comprehensive Family Health Center Inc d/b/a CommuniCare SA, BSN faculty at University of the Incarnate Word, and Jean Dols, PhD. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Tackling climate change through circular economy in cities

Circular economy principles can lead to a series of opportunities to tackle climate change, particularly in cities of developing countries where the generation of waste, consumption and demand for energy is growing rapidly. This paper aims to advance the understanding of the expansion of circularity for tackling climate change using biomass for energy at the urban scale. In addition, little is known about how Circular Economy (CE) flows can be quantitatively integrated, what potential trade-offs exist in promoting Circular Economy using biomass, and how governance models can integrate these flows and contribute to a Circular Economy transition in cities. Based on an empirical study of a city in India, where the private sector participation through an innovative Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model enabled the use of urban wastewater in thermal power plants, the study presents the viability of Circular Economy models at the city scale. The feasibility of a further expansion of this circularity by co-firing biomass in local thermal power plants was analyzed, as a potential solution for reducing pollution and carbon emissions in a hard-to-abate sector. The result indicated an average 20.5 MJ kg−1 calorific value for torrefied mixed biomass pellets from crop residues, which, if applied to about 447 kt y−1 surplus biomass available in Nagpur would amount to 9.18 PJ of energy (per year). Overall, local power plants demanded about 19.85 Mt of coal in 2017–18, equivalent to 297.8 PJ in that fiscal year. Thus, the supply of torrefied pellets from peri-urban crop residues can meet between 2 and 3% of the demand from coal-fired power plants, resulting in a 0.3% decrease in the emissions from the power sector in India in 2017–18 (i.e., 922 MtCO2), benefiting different sectors and levels of government. The analysis provides a framework for understanding the technical and institutional possibilities for strengthening the relationship between circular economy and climate change in the cities of developing countries by connecting flows and systems within and beyond urban centers. Therefore, the expansion of Circular Economy in cities can occur by integrating urban sectors and policy coordination at different levels of governance. Partnerships between local governments, utilities, and civil society for co-managing energy, water, and waste in cities can reduce the financial burden on national governments, including meeting national emission targets.

Managerial control systems and innovation partnership success: an empirical analysis in Italian firms

PurposeThis study analyses the link between product/service innovation, partnerships and Managerial Control System (MCS). Particularly, it aims to analyse empirically the role of MCS in supporting the innovation partnership successful functioning and management.Design/methodology/approachThe sample of this study consists of 106 Italian manufacturing firms belonging to the sectors of the Italian economy with the largest number of registered patents according to the European trend chart on innovation.FindingsThe results show that MCS may play a key role in reducing risks and lowering the likelihood of failure of innovation partnerships. Particularly, the authors found a positive correlation between the use of informal control mechanisms and a partnership’s successful performance. Moreover, among informal control, the findings show that trust is the only true informal mechanism that can guarantee a successful collaboration. The results of this study may offer relevant implications for practitioners. With regard to the control of the partnership’s activities, the initiatives and creativity of those who are actively involved in the innovation process should not be inhibited; therefore, stifling them with strict rules and procedures would be ineffective but if a firm is not willing to give up formal control mechanisms altogether because it does not believe that a trust-based coordination is sufficiently reassuring, it should opt for “weak”, albeit formal, control mechanisms based on a shared production and management of plans and reports, thus ensuring a perfect information symmetry among different partners.Originality/valueNotwithstanding the different opportunities provided by partnerships and strategic alliances to support there is a growing body of evidence of a high failure rate in such organisational forms. One of the causes cited in the literature is the high level of risk associated with alliances as compared to internal development of innovation. The risks mainly arise from the difficulties to obtain cooperation with partners that might have different objectives, and from the potential opportunistic behaviour of some of the partners. This is particularly true in innovation networks where the uncertainty of producing an interesting result is very high and the investments that the partners make are considerable. In this context, MCS could play a relevant role in reducing the risks and decreasing the likelihood of failure.

An Innovative Academic-Practice Partnership Using Simulation to Provide End-of-Life Education for Undergraduate Nursing Students in Rural Settings.

Innovations that foster academic-practice partnerships can fill direct clinical care gaps and supplement faculty expertise, particularly in rural settings. An end-of-life simulation was cocreated by nursing faculty and regional certified hospice and palliative care nurses (CHPNs) as a course improvement project for traditional baccalaureate students who lacked direct care experience. Groups of students experienced skills-based pain management and end-of-life conversation-based scenarios using CHPNs as standardized patients. The simulation conformed to current standards in health care simulation, including prebriefing and debriefing components. Feedback from students and CHPNs supports the partnership as an effective teaching/learning strategy.

Experiences from an innovative public-private partnership: developing the Patient Transfer and Rehabilitation (PTR) Robot

The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021.