Entrepreneurial innovation in health: Thinking beyond form and function
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EIT Health is supported by the EIT,
a body of the European Union
Entrepreneurial Innovation in Health
K. Debackere | Rotterdam | February 25, 2016
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Challenges: a confusing picture?
• A few recent, insightful and challenging writings:
• Levy & Murnane, The new Division of Labour, 2005 --- SKILLS
• Brynjolfsson & McAfee, The Second Machine Age, 2014 --- DIGITIZATION
• The Economist: Wealth without Work, Work without Wealth, 2014 --- JOBS
• Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century, 2014 --- INEQUALITY
• Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public versus Private
Sector Myths, 2014 --- INCLUSIVE INNOVATION
• Mizruchi,Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite, 2014 --- COHESION
• Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, 2016 --- PRODUCTIVITY
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Challenges: embracing this confusion
Nowotny, The Cunning of Uncertainty, 2016
Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the
search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific research.
Science continues to transform uncertainties into certainties but this certainty
always remains provisional.
Such is the cunning of uncertainty: it appears at unexpected moments, it shuns
the straight line, takes the oblique route and sometimes the unexpected shortcut.
The more we acknowledge the cunning of uncertainty, the less threatened we
feel by it.
This message is vital for politicians and policy makers: do not be tempted by
small, short term, controllable gains to the exclusion of uncertain, high-gain
opportunities.
Two change agents: scientists and entrepreneurs. Leading creative destruction.
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EIT Health: embracing the challenges
OutreachDissemination
GROWTHINNOVATION
CAPABILITIES
JOBS
Business
creation
activities
Higher
education
activities
Innovation-
driven research
activities
Research
actors
Business
actors
Higher
education
actors
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial
talent
Start-ups,
Spin-offs
New products, services
and business models
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Opportunities in the Knowledge Triangle
(ECOOM, 2012)
In line with previous research, the findings show that, in general, co-ownership of patented inventions
presents important challenges in appropriating value. However, making a more fine-grained distinction
between different types of partner (i.e. intra-industry, inter-industry, and university), we observe that
these appropriation challenges are most pronounced when firms co-patent with firms situated within the
same industry.
This finding suggests that, to assess the extent to which co-patenting may restrict a firm’s ability to reap
the commercial benefits of collaborative R&D efforts, it is important to consider the extent to which
partners operate in overlapping exploitation domains. When both partners are active in different
exploitation domains, as is likely the case with inter-industry partners, sharing ownership of the
knowledge accruing from collaborative R&D is less likely to restrict their ability to appropriate the
commercial benefits of the technology at hand. In contrast, when firms are active within the same
industry, there is a high likelihood that – for a certain number of application domains – shared IP is
associated with competing exploitation strategies, reducing value appropriation for the focal firm.
At the same time, we observe a significant positive relationship between co-patents with universities and
market valuation. This result is likely to derive from the lack of appropriation risks from co-patenting with
these types of partner.
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Meaning: a new innovation dimension
Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (1959):
The meaning of your life is to help others find the meaning
of theirs.
Translating this statement to the entrepreneurial
venture:
The meaning of my product or service is to help others find
its meaning to them.
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Innovation: Function – Form - Meaning
ART S&T
MATERIAL PRODUCTS
ICONIC PRODUCTS - IMMATERIAL
Meaning
Form
Function
Graphics + branding
Graphic design
Fashion
Interior design
Industrial design
Styling
Craft products
Ergonomics
Design of capital goods
Engineering design
Engineering component design
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EIT Health: discovering meaning in health
innovation
Support Active
Ageing
Workplace interventions
Overcoming functional
loss
Optimise the physical
working environment
Improve
Healthcare
Improving healthcare
systems
Treating and managing
chronic diseases
Establish holistic care
solutions in home and
clinical settings
Promote Healthy
Living
Enable people to take
charge of their own
health
Lifestyle intervention
Self-management of
health
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EIT Health: giving meaning to health
innovation
Professional inertia
Professional-centric
• Surrender
• Formal
• Institutional care
Expert opinion
I am entitled to health
care
Empowerment
Citizen-centric
• Actively involved
• Individual norms
• Own-control
Own values and norms
I am supported in
managing my own health
What matters to you?What is the matter with you?
