Innovative Partnership Research Articles

Collaboration through EIP-AGRI Operational Groups and their role as innovation intermediaries´

In the context of EU rural development policy, one of the proposed actions is the formation of Operational Groups (OGs). These OGs are part of the framework of the European Innovation Partnership on Agricul-tural Productivity and Sustainability (EIP-AGRI). The objective of this policy is to promote sustainable and applicable solutions to agricultural problems. OGs can be thought of as innovation intermediaries. Their functions have been addressed in the literature on agricultural innovation systems. To advance the research in this area, the objective of this study is to identify the innovation intermediary functions of Spanish OGs by drawing upon the opinions of their members. An online survey was conducted to collect data from members of Spanish EIP-AGRI OGs. The questionnaire asked members about the characteris-tics and functions of their OGs. More specifically, it also collected evaluations of the performance of OGs in certain innovation activities. The results of an exploratory factor analysis reveal that Spanish OGs perform three main functions: innovation process management, demand articulation, and institutional support and innovation brokering.

ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЯ ІННОВАЦІЙНИХ СИСТЕМ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ ЗАЛІЗНИЧНОГО ТРАНСПОРТУ В УМОВАХ ЦИФРОВІЗАЦІЇ

The article examines transformational trends characteristic of the current stage of development of subjects of the transport and logistics sector, in particular enterprises of the railway transport. It is established that digital innovations are now considered as a key factor for successful adaptation of entities to new business conditions, the introduction of which in the activities of enterprises contributes to the optimization of processes, sustainable development of business entities and the establishment of their effective communication with stakeholders. It is emphasized that the acceleration of technological progress and the reduction of the innovation life cycle requires increasing the pace and, accordingly, the cost of research activities, which in the conditions of limited own resources of the enterprise creates the need to find new approaches to the organization of innovation activities and involve other economic entities in the innovation process. The article analyzes the current state and trends in the development of railway transport enterprises, the peculiarities of the impact of digitalization on changing the principles of their management and transforming the innovative environment of railway industry enterprises. It is established that against the background of the development of the digital economy, drastic changes are also taking place in the innovative environment of railway transport enterprises, associated with the large-scale penetration of digital technologies into their activities, the deepening of Global Innovation Partnership and cooperation based on the development of digital ecosystems, the strengthening of cross-functionality and convergence of elements of the innovation system, the transition from mass standardized production to the development of customized products and services. The features of the formation of open and closed innovation systems according to such criteria as the type of innovation environment, features of interaction of subjects of innovation activity, the duration of the innovation cycle, the type of innovation and the role of the consumer in the innovation process are studied. Attention is focused on the expediency of forming open innovative systems at railway transport enterprises, which are characterized by the use of not only their own, but also external ideas, technologies, ways to enter the market, etc.

The Road to Value Demands a Smarter Approach to Risk.

As healthcare nears year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and health systems should consider accepting significant responsibility for the total cost of care from all sources, per covered life, over time. One place to start: Reduce avoidable spending on chronic conditions, which, combined with mental health conditions, account for most healthcare expenditures. This shift will necessitate investments that strengthen the ability to identify at-risk populations and react in ways that help avoid complications and reduce unnecessary costs.Even before the pandemic, it was clear that there were missed opportunities to reduce costs of care. Failures in care coordination contributed to billions of dollars in waste each year. Now, as payers explore innovative risk-based arrangements for addressing the impacts of social determinants of health and delayed care on health outcomes, healthcare providers should seek opportunities to partner with payers in developing shared-risk approaches to patient engagement and chronic condition management. Steps toward designing a model for risk innovation include rewarding physicians and clinicians for managing the total cost of care, involving physicians in discussions around acceptable levels of risk in value-based contracts, ensuring that the organization's cost accounting approach meets its strategic needs, investing in actuaries to study data that can identify rising-risk patients, and exploring innovative partnerships for funding the infrastructure for value.

The Role of Cultural and Creative Industries Sector for Post-COVID Recovery

Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) have been intensively studied within the last decades due to their high economic growth potential and positive impact on innovation. In recent years, research shows increasing efforts to unfold CCIs’ potential for innovation partnerships in cross-sectoral cooperation with traditional companies. This classical role of CCI has been discussed in the new context in the frame of COVID-19. Here, the CCI sector itself had to find other channels to meet their clients, but besides that, an extended role of the CCI sector for post-COVID recovery is debated by several key players, including OECD. The paper analyses the current socio-economic situation that is still shadowed by the ongoing COVID pandemic and discusses sustainable and inclusive growth paths of a post-COVID recovery driven by creativity concepts. The Baltic Sea Region (BSR) as the first macro-region with its own macro-regional strategy and its strong innovation power, domination of SME sector, low population density, its heterogeneous business structures resulting from its characteristic mixture of old and new EU Member States can be considered as a test lab for the whole Europe. From the CCI perspective, its long Hanse history that generated a common Baltic identity opens the opportunity to deploy common cultural approaches for successful inter-cultural recovery concepts.

Značaj kontrole duvana u prevenciji malignih bolesti

Smoking is related to 25% of all cases of malignant diseases globally. In 2020, in EU, 2.7 million people were diagnosed and 1.3 million died from malignant diseases. It is estimated that, in Europe, 1.6 million cases of lung cancer could be prevented with appropriate implementation of evidence-based tobacco control measures. In Serbia, more than 15.000 people die prematurely due to tobacco use every year. In addition, more than 800.000 of current smokers in Serbia will die prematurely if tobacco control measures are not implemented. Thus, tobacco control is of great importance for reducing the burden of malignant diseases. The aim of the article is to gain insight into tobacco control actions in key international and national documents and initiatives aimed at malignant disease prevention. Europe's Beating Cancer Plan includes activities that should decrease the share of the population in EU using tobacco to below 5% by 2040, which would be a significant reduction compared to current 25%. Joint Action "Innovative Partnership for Action Against Cancer", is aimed, among other things, at strengthening cancer prevention and raising awareness of the European Code Against Cancer, which stipulates 12 key recommendations for cancer risk reduction. Among these, two refer to tobacco use and exposure to tobacco smoke. Program for the improvement of cancer control in the Republic of Serbia for 2020-2022 foresees enhanced implementation of the existing tobacco-related legislation and its alignment with the WHO Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (FCTC) and EU acquis, as well as strengthening the network of smoking cessation services. Although many countries are signatories of the WHO FCTC and thus committed to the implementation of evidence-based tobacco control measures, tobacco use prevalence is still high, leading to higher cancer morbidity. Therefore, additional efforts and emphasis on tobacco control are needed within prevention of non-communicable diseases. Current strategic documents in the EU and in Serbia recognize the importance of tobacco control and provide a framework for reduction of tobacco use, but appropriate implementation of these measures is also necessary.

Zajednička akcija "Inovativno partnerstvo za akciju protiv raka"

Malignant diseases are the second most common cause of morbidity and mortality, on the global scale, but also in European Union and Serbia. Recognizing this problem, the European Commission has been continuously investing funds into projects aimed against cancer for the past decade. One such project is the Joint Action "Innovative Partnership for Action Against Cancer", which launched in April 2018 and will wrap up in December 2021. The project is implemented within the Third Health Programme of the European Union, which funded the project. "Innovative Partnership for Action Against Cancer" encompasses 24 countries, representing 44 partner institutions. The National Institute of Public Health of Slovenia (NIPHS) coordinates the project. Project activities are implemented within 10 work packages, of which four are horizontal and mandatory (coordination, dissemination, evaluation and integration into national policies and sustainability), while 6 are the so-called "vertical" work packages, namely: cancer prevention, genomics in cancer control and care, cancer information and registries, challenges in cancer care, innovative therapies in cancer and governance of integrated and comprehensive cancer care. Each of the work packages has its objectives, activities and outcomes. The roadmap for implementation and sustainability of cancer control actions represents the key outcome of work package 4 (Integration in national policies and sustainability), as well as of the entire Joint Action. Work package 4 interviewed the representatives of countries participating in Joint Action to gain insight into their experiences and challenges in implementing cancer control policies. Some of these challenges have also been recognized in Serbia, leading the Government of the Republic of Serbia to adopt the cancer control program in the Republic of Serbia for the period 2020-2022. In the same year, 2020, the World Cancer Day (4 February) was commemorated with the event "Europe's Beating Cancer Plan - Let's Strive for More" in the European Parliament, and a year later, the European Commission presented the Europe's Beating Cancer Plan. Three Joint Action activities implemented thus far made a great contribution to the control of malignant diseases, many documents, instructions, programs were elaborated, and then used as key inputs into the new Europe's Beating Cancer Plan.

Analysis of the Mechanism of Collaborative Innovation Partner Selection in Medical Device Industry

Analysis of the Mechanism of Collaborative Innovation Partner Selection in Medical Device Industry

The Cardiovascular Quality Improvement and Care Innovation Consortium: Inception of a Multicenter Collaborative to Improve Cardiovascular Care.

Despite decades of improvement in the quality and outcomes of cardiovascular care, significant gaps remain. Existing quality improvement strategies are often limited in scope to specific clinical conditions and episodic care. Health services and outcomes research is essential to inform gaps in care but rarely results in the development and implementation of care delivery solutions. Although individual health systems are engaged in projects to improve the quality of care delivery, these efforts often lack a robust study design or implementation evaluation that can inform generalizability and further dissemination. Aligning the work of health care systems and health services and outcomes researchers could serve as a strategy to overcome persisting gaps in cardiovascular quality and outcomes. We describe the inception of the Cardiovascular Quality Improvement and Care Innovation Consortium that seeks to rapidly improve cardiovascular care by (1) developing, implementing, and evaluating multicenter quality improvement projects using innovative care designs; (2) serving as a resource for quality improvement and care innovation partners; and (3) establishing a presence within existing quality improvement and care innovation structures. Success of the collaborative will be defined by projects that result in changes to care delivery with demonstrable impacts on the quality and outcomes of care across multiple health systems. Furthermore, insights gained from implementation of these projects across sites in Cardiovascular Quality Improvement and Care Innovation Consortium will inform and promote broad dissemination for greater impact.

Risk-management of public-private partnership innovation projects

This paper recapitulates the argumentations from various scientific discussion concerning the issue of projects` risk management. The article mainly is aimed to analyze the process of risk-management of the innovation projects in the form of public-private partnership, to describe a methodologies of Failure mode, effects and criticality analysis and Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model, to use above mentioned models in the evaluation of the stability risk of public-private partnership innovation projects. Previous research studies on the topic of public-private partnership defined the efficiency of state sector and business cooperation in a form of public-private partnership, demonstrated that it will allow making investments in the production capacity development, broaden the scope of domestic and foreign markets, accelerate industrial growth, refine the quality of goods, services and works, business activity and investment attractiveness. Especially it can be achieved through innovation project implementation. Moreover, systematization the results in the overview process of literary sources and approaches in the issue of innovation public-private projects` risk-management problem-solving specifies that a huge number of theoretical and practical problems, especially of risk evaluation is urgent, remain unsolved and still studied not enough nowadays. An underdevelopment of innovation projects’ risk-management system, especially in our country, is conditioned the relevance of that scientific problem additionally existing in the circumstances of complex public-private partnership innovation projects` risks evaluation. Investigation of the topic «Risk management of public-private partnership innovation projects» in the article is fulfilled in the following logical sequence: defining the problems while literature review, focusing on project risk-management issue, describing the methodology of the research, demonstrating the results, and making conclusions. The object of research is the chosen by creating a prototype of innovation project in the infrastructure field, suggested that it will be implemented in the form of public-private partnership.

Хот суурин газрын усны нөөцийн нэгдсэн менежментийн үнэлгээ: Чиг хандлага ба нөлөөллийн тогтолцоо

The large number of people living together in urban areas requires a comprehensive solutions for issues such as the reasonable allocation and adequate use of natural resources, urban planning, and efficient waste management to meet the city's needs. One of the main factors influencing the health and comfort of urban residents is the supply of clean water and sewerage systems. Therefore, in order to rationally allocate and use water resources to meet urban needs, and to create a healthy and comfortable living environment for city residents, it is necessary to develop an integrated water resources management plan at the national and basin levels, as well as an integrated water management plan and assessment for city level. In addition to assessing the current state of water management, it is important to identify factors and trends that may further strain water resources to prevent future risks. To address the pressures on water management in Ulaanbaatar and Darkhan, representing Mongolia's urban areas, the City Blueprint Approach, developed by the EU Water Innovation Partnership and the Dutch Institute of Water Cycle, was used in this study. Currently, this approach is used in about 80 cities in more than 40 countries, it is a relatively new and innovative method among Asian cities. As a result, water management in Ulaanbaatar and Darkhan is hampered by both social, economic, and environmental factors.

Innovative Partnerships

Nearly every country in the world faces a dual burden of nutrition-related diseases. Increased prevalence of these conditions is especially concerning in least developed countries. Training local health care professionals to administer medical nutrition therapy and apply behavior change counseling in hospital and community settings will reduce nutrition-related disease burden. We describe strategies used by Iowa State University and Oregon Health & Science University and their partners in Ghana, Africa, and Lao People's Democratic Republic, Southeast Asia, to build professional capacity in clinical and community nutrition interventions and provide US-based dietetic interns and graduate students experience in the international nutrition sector.

Innovative Partnership Between Primary Care, AAA, and Academia Connects 4Ms and Social Determinants of Health

Nationally, there is a growing focus on addressing geriatric care in primary care settings. HRSA’s Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) has called for academic and health system partners to develop a reciprocal, innovative, cross-sector partnership that includes primary care sites and community-based agencies serving older adults. Through the University of Southern Indiana’s GWEP, the College of Nursing and Health Professions, the Deaconess Health System, three primary care clinics, and two Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) have joined to transform the healthcare of older adults regionally, including rural residents in the 12-county area. Core to the project is a value-based care model that “embeds” AAA care managers in primary care clinics. Preliminary evaluation indicates early success in improving the healthcare of older adults at one primary clinic, where clinical teams have referred 64 older adult patients to the AAA care manager. Among these 64 patients, 80% were connected to supplemental, community-based health services; 22% to programs addressing housing and transportation; and, nearly 10% to a range of other services (e.g., job training; language and literacy; and technology). In addition to presenting limited data on referred patients and referral outcomes, the presentation will share copies of the AAA referral log, to illustrate how resources were categorized by SDOH and added to support integration of the 4Ms.

BOP 3.0 OPPORTUNITY IDENTIFICATION AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

Bottom of the pyramid (BoP) 3.0 aims to alter the socio-economic system affecting the poor with an inclusive approach. It seeks to promote holistic solutions by addressing sustainability in all its three dimensions ie economic, social and environmental. In order to reach these goals it calls for new business practices like open innovation, scalability, purpose and cross network partnerships. The article reviews literature over the past decade to understand the challenges of Bottom of the pyramid (BoP) and the new imperatives posed by BoP 3.0.In order to address the issues the researcher suggest the use of two frameworks for businesses. The researcher builds two conceptual models with the use of literature review. The first presents a simple way of examining companies on their focus on environmental and social sustainability outcomes. The other is a framework depicting a flow of activities that can help companies to tap BoP opportunities which can deliver sustainable outcomes. The first framework can be used for diagnostic purpose and the second can be used to drive the BoP 3.0 initiatives for businesses in an integrated way by starting with the opportunity, clarifying the target market needs and identifying the constraints in meeting these needs. The constraints then set the boundaries for generating innovations using sustainable business models and the 4 A’s framework. The study covers literature review, frameworks, discussions and conclusions. It explains how the frameworks suggested are derived from literature review and past research work and promotes its use by businesses to address inclusivity and other BoP 3.0 imperatives.

Unmasking partnerships for agricultural innovation: the realities of a research–private sector partnership in Lombok, Indonesia

ABSTRACT Research institute–private sector partnerships are promoted as a mechanism to increase the scale and sustainability of research impact, especially where government extension services are constrained. Such partnerships are often framed as simple transactional or contractual arrangements. This paper traces the evolution of a multi-lateral partnership between a public university, agri-input supplier, finance provider and local government in North and East Lombok. The partnership aimed to increase household incomes by introducing new practices for maize and pulse production, but in order to do so, had to enable farmers to access affordable credit and inputs in a timely manner. Analysis of the partnership over three years highlights its dynamic nature and the importance of a consistent champion who aligns the competing institutional incentives and aspirations of actors. It also highlights how partners bear different types and degrees of risk across different stages of the partnership. The findings affirm the potential for research–private sector partnerships to contribute to agricultural innovation but highlight a more complex and messy process than is acknowledged in the literature. A more realistic understanding of partnership and innovation processes needs to inform how schemes and innovation support mechanisms are designed if they are to deliver on the promise of scale and sustainability.

An introductory perspective on emerging, transformative technologies in biopharma: promises, challenges and impediments

This article provides a top-level overview of some key challenges and potential solutions associated with the development and commercialization of innovative and transformative solutions to address identified needs in biopharmaceutical, MedTech and Digital Health markets. As the industry seeks to incorporate more diverse technologies, it is simultaneously transforming thru the formation of open innovation partnership models and collaborations amongst the various parties in the ecosystem, including start-ups and emerging organizations. Accordingly, organizational, or business model transformation is required to reduce risk, while providing for capital-efficient development, clinical validation, and commercialization. We also address the need for an ethical and transparent approach to align the interests of all parties in the healthcare ecosystem and to achieve affordable pricing of the resultant solutions.

Cross-Sector Partnerships for Innovation and Growth: Can Creative Industries Support Traditional Sector Innovations?

At the turn of culture and economics, cultural and creative industries (CCIs) stimulate business, technology, and society and drive innovations within individual regions, as well as on a cross-border level. This makes CCIs and thus culture, creativity, and design significant elements of the modern, post-industrial, and knowledge-based economy. The purpose of the paper is to outline the expectations and needs of entrepreneurs in both the creative and traditional sectors for the future cooperation and implementation of cross-sectoral innovations. It is assumed that there are no guidelines on establishing a cross-sectorial process for the efficient transfer of knowledge for innovation between the two sectors, establishing a strong platform of international cooperation for innovations in the region. To obtain information in this area quantitative and qualitative research was done. A series of expert interviews were conducted, and empirical expert observations were made in the form of qualitative surveys and expert assessments. The presented results are based on the summary reports of empirical research activities. The results of the analysis allowed us to determine that the assumption was true and that representatives of both the traditional and creative sectors lack proven models of cooperation and commercialization for joint innovations.

ANALYSIS OF THE FACTORS THAT DETERMINE THE FEATURES OF THE ORGANIZATION OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN THE INNOVATION ACTIVITY OF UKRAINE

The objective of the article is to clarify the nature and benefits of public-private partnership and analysis of factors influencing its organization and dissemination in innovation. The usefulness of introducing public-private partnership in the innovation sphere is due to the possibility of combining state regulation of innovation development with the potential of private business, which should be considered as a carrier of managerial, human, and financial capital. Society is interested in the organization of public-private partnership in innovation because the result of achieving its strategic goal would solve several socially important problems, which include employment growth, increasing real incomes, spreading innovation, and accelerating socioeconomic progress. Methodology. During the analysis, public-private partnership was considered as a complex open system with the use of systematic analysis methodology in the study, which allowed to emphasize certain aspects of the specific nature of its operation. Results. Public-private partnership in innovation is a form of relationship that arises between the public sector and private business on a medium- or long-term basis and involves the creation of innovation infrastructure, production, and distribution of innovation products on mutually beneficial terms, which is achieved by providing a specific form financing, the common interests of the participants and the distribution of possible risks between them. The organization of public-private partnership, especially in the field of innovation, is influenced by a significant number of factors among which it is useful to outline institutional, legislative, economic, internal, and external, direct, and indirect. The institutional factor determines the nature of institutional policy that affects public-private partnerships. Legislative factors provide for legal regulation of the establishment and further operation of public-private partnership in the field of innovation. The economic factors influencing the organization of public-private partnership include credit, tax (tax holidays, reduction of income tax rates, tax credit), investment and depreciation (reduction of depreciation, increase of depreciation rates) policy. Practical implications. As a result of the analysis, several benefits that both the public sector and private business receive from the spread of public-private partnerships in innovation are outlined. The reflection of institutional, legislative, economic, and other factors of the organization of public-private partnership will allow to consider their influence for the intensification of innovative activity as a basis for increasing the competitiveness of the national economy. Value/originality. The use of systematic analysis allowed to outline the main factors that contribute or conversely the spread of public-private partnership in innovation in Ukraine. Considering their action will minimize the negative manifestations and make full use of the positive aspects, which will be an important factor in enhancing innovative growth on the basis of public-private partnership. Economic and other factors of public-private partnership will allow to take into account their impact to enhance innovation as a basis for increasing the competitiveness of the national economy.

EIT Digital: leveraging ecosystems for international entrepreneurial innovation

Building on earlier work on entrepreneurship and holistic innovation policy, the paper elaborates on the concept of “entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem” and applies it in the empirical analysis of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) partnership operations. The analysis focuses on the EIT Digital, which is one of the EIT “Knowledge and Innovation Communities” (KICs) formed by partners from higher education, research and business. The empirical research with primary data from semi-structured interviews and secondary data from desk research provides evidence on the different perceptions between EIT Digital managers in six accelerators around Europe compared to partners and start-ups in the Madrid co-location centre. Ecosystem dimensions are intertwined in EIT Digital activities and the actual performance of the whole depends on their effective alignment. Hence, further research is suggested on the interconnections between the ecosystem dimensions with particular attention to ecosystem integration, international networking and adaptive governance.

How can crowdsourcing help tackle the COVID‐19 pandemic? An explorative overview of innovative collaborative practices

The COVID‐19 pandemic has caused unprecedented public health and economic crises. As a response to face the current emergency, science and innovation communities are realizing a fundamental contribution to tackle the crisis. During the past few months, we have witnessed an impressive number of initiatives to encourage networking opportunities, to foster interactions between the different stakeholders involved (health care, industry, governments, academics, ordinary people), and to develop innovative solutions and collaborative infrastructures in support of the health sector. Adopting an open and collaborative approach and joining forces is essential in the fight against the COVID‐19 crisis. Also, the involvement of crowds as innovation partners can be of great support. Therefore, our work aims to review and classify those initiatives, based on the crowdsourcing model, that have been put into place to face the emergency generated by the novel coronavirus pandemic. We illustrate the 16 crowdsourcing initiatives devoted to the SARS‐CoV‐2 outbreak that we identified, detailing their development and implementation. Then, we propose a classification of them, along two dimensions: type of crowdsourcing configuration and kind of tasks, being able to find a relationship between these two aspects. Evidence from the analyzed projects suggests that across disparate domains, crowdsourcing can be an effective strategy in the response to the COVID‐19 pandemic. To conclude, we suggest some important implications for innovation best practices and lessons that can be learned for the future: crowdsourcing, harnessing the power of crowds and online communities, can help tackle the COVID‐19 pandemic, by providing original, actionable, quick, and low‐cost solutions to the challenges of the current health and economic crisis.

Forging researchers-farmers partnership in public social innovation: a case study of Malaysia’s agro-based public research institution

This paper explores the effective roles of public research institutions (PRIs) in social innovation and understand the element of communal support in researchers-farmers partnership. The case study on Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) reveals that the partnership between researchers and farmers is limited. The only productive and formal channel for researchers to reach the farmers is through agricultural extension agencies. It found that there are three elements that drive sustainable social innovation in agriculture: (1) quality research by PRIs; (2) efficient extension agency in disseminating knowledge to farmers; and (3) productive farmers in delivering high-yields farming. This paper claimed that the presence of partnership between researchers in PRIs and farmers is the crucial pivot in ensuring innovation reaches the target group. The study also found the potential of civil society organizations to transform farmers into more active innovation actors in the agricultural innovation system.