Snowdon Anne W, Bassi Harpreet, Scarffe Andrew D, Smith Alexander D
Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation (ICHI), Ivey Business School at Western University, 1255 Western Road, London, Ontario, N6G 0 N1, Canada.
Faculty of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada.
Global Health. 2015 Feb 7;11(1):2. doi: 10.1186/s12992-015-0088-x.
Canada, when compared to other OECD countries, ranks poorly with respect to innovation and innovation adoption while struggling with increasing health system costs. As a result of its failure to innovate, the Canadian health system will struggle to meet the needs and demands of both current and future populations. The purpose of this initiative was to explore if a competition-based reverse innovation challenge could mobilize and stimulate current and future leaders to identify and lead potential reverse innovation projects that address health system challenges in Canada.
An open call for applications took place over a 4-month period. Applicants were enticed to submit to the competition with a $50,000 prize for the top submission to finance their project. Leaders from a wide cross-section of sectors collectively developed evaluation criteria and graded the submissions. The criteria evaluated: proof of concept, potential value, financial impact, feasibility, and scalability as well as the use of prize money and innovation team.
The competition received 12 submissions from across Canada that identified potential reverse innovations from 18 unique geographical locations that were considered developing and/or emerging markets. The various submissions addressed health system challenges relating to education, mobile health, aboriginal health, immigrant health, seniors health and women's health and wellness. Of the original 12 submissions, 5 finalists were chosen and publically profiled, and 1 was chosen to receive the top prize.
The results of this initiative demonstrate that a competition that is targeted to reverse innovation does have the potential to mobilize and stimulate leaders to identify reverse innovations that have the potential for system level impact. The competition also provided important insights into the capacity of Canadian students, health care providers, entrepreneurs, and innovators to propose and implement reverse innovation in the context of the Canadian health system.
与其他经合组织国家相比，加拿大在创新及创新应用方面排名靠后，同时还面临着医疗系统成本不断增加的问题。由于缺乏创新，加拿大医疗系统将难以满足当前及未来人群的需求。本倡议的目的是探讨基于竞赛的反向创新挑战能否调动并激励当前及未来的领导者，以识别并引领可能应对加拿大医疗系统挑战的反向创新项目。
在4个月的时间内进行了公开的申请征集。通过为最佳提交方案提供5万加元奖金来吸引申请人参与竞赛，以资助他们的项目。来自广泛领域的领导者共同制定了评估标准，并对提交的方案进行评分。评估标准包括：概念验证、潜在价值、财务影响、可行性、可扩展性以及奖金使用情况和创新团队。
该竞赛收到了来自加拿大各地的12份提交方案，这些方案从被视为发展中及/或新兴市场的18个独特地理位置识别出了潜在的反向创新。各种提交方案涉及与教育、移动医疗、原住民健康、移民健康、老年人健康以及女性健康和保健相关的医疗系统挑战。在最初的12份提交方案中，选出了5名决赛选手并进行公开介绍，其中1名获得了最高奖项。
该倡议的结果表明，针对反向创新的竞赛确实有潜力调动并激励领导者识别具有系统层面影响潜力的反向创新。该竞赛还为加拿大学生、医疗服务提供者、企业家和创新者在加拿大医疗系统背景下提出和实施反向创新的能力提供了重要见解。
