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Special Issue call for papers: "Rethinking Medical Innovation: Organizing R&D, Responding to Crisis, Delivering Health Services" In Innovation: Organization and Management

  • 1.  Special Issue call for papers: "Rethinking Medical Innovation: Organizing R&D, Responding to Crisis, Delivering Health Services" In Innovation: Organization and Management

    Posted 06-14-2021 08:42
    Edited by Christine Moser 06-15-2021 09:49
    Special Issue call for papers: "Rethinking Medical Innovation: Organizing R&D, Responding to Crisis, Delivering Health Services" with guest editors Bastian Rake (Maynooth University), Magnus Gulbrandsen (University of Oslo (UiO), Maureen McKelvey (University of Gothenburg), and Fiona Miller (University of Toronto) in Innovation: Organization and Management. For more info about the journal, see here: Innovation

    The deadline for submissions is 1 December 2021!

    Theme 1: The Changing Business Organization of Medical Innovation and R&D
    Theme 2: Responding to Crisis with Medical Innovation
    Theme 3: Innovation Policies for Medical Innovation
    Theme 4: Medical Innovation and Delivery of Care Around Hospitals and Patients

    Background: Innovation, entrepreneurship and the organization of research and development in the context of healthcare organizations, the medical devices and pharmaceutical industries as well as the broader field of medicine and life-sciences have been of great interest for many researchers across different innovation and knowledge related domains. For multiple reasons, however, common approaches to analyzing and explaining these developments may require rethinking how, why, and when medical innovations occur and are diffused in society.

    A first reason for "Rethinking Medical Innovation" derives from the challenges facing traditional ways of innovating in this sphere. Specifically, scientific and technological progress in bio-medical and related disciplines such as personalized therapies (Denicolai and Previtali 2020) as well as digitalization and the use of artificial intelligence in innovation processes (Schneider et al. 2020) challenge existing ways of innovating. At the same time, the disruptive element of the global COVID-19 pandemic as a crisis event opens up new opportunities, and raised questions about the potential for a redesign of where and how medical innovation is conducted (George, Lakhani, and Puranam 2020). This may encompass the development of new organizational forms and new policies to facilitate innovation as a response to the crisis but may also reduce the ability of organizations to dedicate scarce resources to medical innovation (Gross and Sampat 2020; Paunov 2012; Archibugi, Filippetti, and Frenz 2013). These developments illustrate that there is a need to carefully reassess our knowledge about medical innovation in order to meet new challenges.

    The objective of this special issue is to contribute to broadening and deepening our knowledge on new developments and changes in the way medical innovation occurs. We invite submissions studying the topic of "Rethinking Medical Innovation" in a variety of contexts including but not limited to businesses, academia, governments, healthcare providers, and not-for-profit organizations. We have developed four broad themes as being of primary interest for this special issue. Submissions must be related to one or more of these themes. 

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    Christine Moser
    Assistant Professor
    Vrije U. Amsterdam
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