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That’s not how the learning works – the paradox of Reverse Innovation: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: There are significant differences in the meaning and use of the term ‘Reverse Innovation’ between industry circles, where the term originated, and health policy circles where the term has gained traction. It is often conflated with other popularized terms such as Frugal Innovation, Co-de...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4932777/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27381466 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-016-0175-7 |
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author | Harris, Matthew Weisberger, Emily Silver, Diana Dadwal, Viva Macinko, James |
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description | BACKGROUND: There are significant differences in the meaning and use of the term ‘Reverse Innovation’ between industry circles, where the term originated, and health policy circles where the term has gained traction. It is often conflated with other popularized terms such as Frugal Innovation, Co-development and Trickle-up Innovation. Compared to its use in the industrial sector, this conceptualization of Reverse Innovation describes a more complex, fragmented process, and one with no particular institution in charge. It follows that the way in which the term ‘Reverse Innovation’, specifically, is understood and used in the healthcare space is worthy of examination. METHODS: Between September and December 2014, we conducted eleven in-depth face-to-face or telephone interviews with key informants from innovation, health and social policy circles, experts in international comparative policy research and leaders in the Reverse Innovation space in the United States. Interviews were open-ended with guiding probes into the barriers and enablers to Reverse Innovation in the US context, specifically also informants' experience and understanding of the term Reverse Innovation. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed thematically using the process of constant comparison. RESULTS: We describe three main themes derived from the interviews. First, ‘Reverse Innovation,’ the term, has marketing currency to convince policy-makers that may be wary of learning from or adopting innovations from unexpected sources, in this case Low-Income Countries. Second, the term can have the opposite effect - by connoting frugality, or innovation arising from necessity as opposed to good leadership, the proposed innovation may be associated with poor quality, undermining potential translation into other contexts. Finally, the term ‘Reverse Innovation’ is a paradox – it breaks down preconceptions of the directionality of knowledge and learning, whilst simultaneously reinforcing it. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that this term means different things to different people and should be used strategically, and with some caution, depending on the audience. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12992-016-0175-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-49327772016-07-06 That’s not how the learning works – the paradox of Reverse Innovation: a qualitative study Harris, Matthew Weisberger, Emily Silver, Diana Dadwal, Viva Macinko, James Global Health Research BACKGROUND: There are significant differences in the meaning and use of the term ‘Reverse Innovation’ between industry circles, where the term originated, and health policy circles where the term has gained traction. It is often conflated with other popularized terms such as Frugal Innovation, Co-development and Trickle-up Innovation. Compared to its use in the industrial sector, this conceptualization of Reverse Innovation describes a more complex, fragmented process, and one with no particular institution in charge. It follows that the way in which the term ‘Reverse Innovation’, specifically, is understood and used in the healthcare space is worthy of examination. METHODS: Between September and December 2014, we conducted eleven in-depth face-to-face or telephone interviews with key informants from innovation, health and social policy circles, experts in international comparative policy research and leaders in the Reverse Innovation space in the United States. Interviews were open-ended with guiding probes into the barriers and enablers to Reverse Innovation in the US context, specifically also informants' experience and understanding of the term Reverse Innovation. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed thematically using the process of constant comparison. RESULTS: We describe three main themes derived from the interviews. First, ‘Reverse Innovation,’ the term, has marketing currency to convince policy-makers that may be wary of learning from or adopting innovations from unexpected sources, in this case Low-Income Countries. Second, the term can have the opposite effect - by connoting frugality, or innovation arising from necessity as opposed to good leadership, the proposed innovation may be associated with poor quality, undermining potential translation into other contexts. Finally, the term ‘Reverse Innovation’ is a paradox – it breaks down preconceptions of the directionality of knowledge and learning, whilst simultaneously reinforcing it. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that this term means different things to different people and should be used strategically, and with some caution, depending on the audience. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12992-016-0175-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2016-07-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4932777/ /pubmed/27381466 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-016-0175-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Harris, Matthew Weisberger, Emily Silver, Diana Dadwal, Viva Macinko, James That’s not how the learning works – the paradox of Reverse Innovation: a qualitative study |
title | That’s not how the learning works – the paradox of Reverse Innovation: a qualitative study |
title_full | That’s not how the learning works – the paradox of Reverse Innovation: a qualitative study |
title_fullStr | That’s not how the learning works – the paradox of Reverse Innovation: a qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | That’s not how the learning works – the paradox of Reverse Innovation: a qualitative study |
title_short | That’s not how the learning works – the paradox of Reverse Innovation: a qualitative study |
title_sort | that’s not how the learning works – the paradox of reverse innovation: a qualitative study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4932777/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27381466 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-016-0175-7 |
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