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Accelerated innovation in crises: The role of collaboration in the development of alternative ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic
This article discusses the need for accelerated innovation in crisis situations and argues that collaboration plays an important role in enabling such acceleration. The central research question is: How can innovation efforts during crises be accelerated, and what role does collaboration play? We dr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9755541/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.101923 |
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author | Geurts, Amber Geerdink, Tara Sprenkeling, Marit |
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description | This article discusses the need for accelerated innovation in crisis situations and argues that collaboration plays an important role in enabling such acceleration. The central research question is: How can innovation efforts during crises be accelerated, and what role does collaboration play? We draw on a phenomenon-driven, in-depth qualitative case study of seven initiatives that have developed alternative ventilators in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 crisis. Our results highlight how the COVID-19 pandemic has created a relatively short crisis window of opportunity for accelerated innovation processes that is driven by the urgency to develop solutions to the challenge at hand. Importantly, we show that when collaborative initiatives join other collaborative initiatives— what we define as nested collaboration—a forum for coordinated knowledge and resource exchange between the initiatives is created, increasing the potential for learning and accelerating the innovation process. Finally, we find that purpose is an important intermediating mechanism to accelerate innovation as it enables non-competitive collaboration between the initiatives in favor of the public good. Our results have important implications for accelerated innovation processes to achieve societal missions, goals, or challenges. |
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spelling | pubmed-97555412022-12-16 Accelerated innovation in crises: The role of collaboration in the development of alternative ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic Geurts, Amber Geerdink, Tara Sprenkeling, Marit Technol Soc Article This article discusses the need for accelerated innovation in crisis situations and argues that collaboration plays an important role in enabling such acceleration. The central research question is: How can innovation efforts during crises be accelerated, and what role does collaboration play? We draw on a phenomenon-driven, in-depth qualitative case study of seven initiatives that have developed alternative ventilators in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 crisis. Our results highlight how the COVID-19 pandemic has created a relatively short crisis window of opportunity for accelerated innovation processes that is driven by the urgency to develop solutions to the challenge at hand. Importantly, we show that when collaborative initiatives join other collaborative initiatives— what we define as nested collaboration—a forum for coordinated knowledge and resource exchange between the initiatives is created, increasing the potential for learning and accelerating the innovation process. Finally, we find that purpose is an important intermediating mechanism to accelerate innovation as it enables non-competitive collaboration between the initiatives in favor of the public good. Our results have important implications for accelerated innovation processes to achieve societal missions, goals, or challenges. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-02 2022-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9755541/ /pubmed/36540134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.101923 Text en © 2022 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Geurts, Amber Geerdink, Tara Sprenkeling, Marit Accelerated innovation in crises: The role of collaboration in the development of alternative ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Accelerated innovation in crises: The role of collaboration in the development of alternative ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Accelerated innovation in crises: The role of collaboration in the development of alternative ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Accelerated innovation in crises: The role of collaboration in the development of alternative ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Accelerated innovation in crises: The role of collaboration in the development of alternative ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Accelerated innovation in crises: The role of collaboration in the development of alternative ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | accelerated innovation in crises: the role of collaboration in the development of alternative ventilators during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9755541/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.101923 |
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