Success Factors of Demand-Driven Open Innovation as a Policy Instrument in the Case of the Healthcare Industry
According to the WHO Global Digital Health Strategy 2020–2024, we should advocate people-centred health systems, promote global collaboration and strengthen the governance of global digital health practices. All this requires a new open innovation approach, which means that stakeholders from regiona...
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| description | According to the WHO Global Digital Health Strategy 2020–2024, we should advocate people-centred health systems, promote global collaboration and strengthen the governance of global digital health practices. All this requires a new open innovation approach, which means that stakeholders from regional administrations, hospitals, companies and intermediate organisations openly work together towards commonly identified global and regional digital health goals. Although both practice and theory have proven that the open innovation approach is beneficial for companies and end-users, there is still a need for increased understanding of what leads to the success of digital health related to regional competitiveness through the implementation of policies based on people-centred open innovation. This study is a longitudinal case study in which open innovation ecosystem partners (including challengers (healthcare organisation representatives), solvers (companies), funders (policy organisations) and supporters (intermediate organisations) were monitored and analysed in three countries. The focus of the paper is to explore a digital health open innovation ecosystem over the years. The results show that the created demand-driven open innovation model can be used to strengthen the governance of digital health, and to improve communication density and knowledge transfer between the ecosystem actors. The new model is a useful way to make funding structures clearer and to improve the people centricity of digital health solutions. The findings help policy-makers to use open innovation as a policy instrument supporting hospital and company managers to increase understanding of the opportunities of demand-driven open innovation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cc532c060edb4eb7b0e3e25fd27e7aec2023-12-02T12:27:11ZengElsevierJournal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity2199-85312020-05-016393910.3390/joitmc6020039Success Factors of Demand-Driven Open Innovation as a Policy Instrument in the Case of the Healthcare IndustryMinna Pikkarainen0Elina Hyrkäs1Myriam Martin2Martti Ahtisaari Institute, Oulu Business School, Erkki Koiso-Kanttilan katu, 90570 Oulu, FinlandPostdoctoral researcher, Martti Ahtisaari Institute, Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, 90014 Oulu, FinlandTicbiomed, Campus Universitario, 7 CP 30100 Espinardo, Murcia, SpainAccording to the WHO Global Digital Health Strategy 2020–2024, we should advocate people-centred health systems, promote global collaboration and strengthen the governance of global digital health practices. All this requires a new open innovation approach, which means that stakeholders from regional administrations, hospitals, companies and intermediate organisations openly work together towards commonly identified global and regional digital health goals. Although both practice and theory have proven that the open innovation approach is beneficial for companies and end-users, there is still a need for increased understanding of what leads to the success of digital health related to regional competitiveness through the implementation of policies based on people-centred open innovation. This study is a longitudinal case study in which open innovation ecosystem partners (including challengers (healthcare organisation representatives), solvers (companies), funders (policy organisations) and supporters (intermediate organisations) were monitored and analysed in three countries. The focus of the paper is to explore a digital health open innovation ecosystem over the years. The results show that the created demand-driven open innovation model can be used to strengthen the governance of digital health, and to improve communication density and knowledge transfer between the ecosystem actors. The new model is a useful way to make funding structures clearer and to improve the people centricity of digital health solutions. The findings help policy-makers to use open innovation as a policy instrument supporting hospital and company managers to increase understanding of the opportunities of demand-driven open innovation.https://www.mdpi.com/2199-8531/6/2/39open innovationcoupled innovationsuccess factorsinnovation ecosystem |
| spellingShingle | Minna Pikkarainen Elina Hyrkäs Myriam Martin Success Factors of Demand-Driven Open Innovation as a Policy Instrument in the Case of the Healthcare Industry Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity open innovation coupled innovation success factors innovation ecosystem |
| title | Success Factors of Demand-Driven Open Innovation as a Policy Instrument in the Case of the Healthcare Industry |
| title_full | Success Factors of Demand-Driven Open Innovation as a Policy Instrument in the Case of the Healthcare Industry |
| title_fullStr | Success Factors of Demand-Driven Open Innovation as a Policy Instrument in the Case of the Healthcare Industry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Success Factors of Demand-Driven Open Innovation as a Policy Instrument in the Case of the Healthcare Industry |
| title_short | Success Factors of Demand-Driven Open Innovation as a Policy Instrument in the Case of the Healthcare Industry |
| title_sort | success factors of demand driven open innovation as a policy instrument in the case of the healthcare industry |
| topic | open innovation coupled innovation success factors innovation ecosystem |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2199-8531/6/2/39 |
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