James Steffan, Liu Zheng, Stephens Victoria, White Gareth R T
South Wales Business School, University of South Wales, Llantwit Road, Pontypridd CF37 1DL, UK.
Cardiff School of Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Western Ave, Cardiff CF5 2YB, UK.
Technol Forecast Soc Change. 2022 Sep;182:121863. doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121863. Epub 2022 Jul 13.
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in huge disruption to the healthcare sector. In response to this, there have been collaborative efforts between many different public and private organizations to foster medical innovations. The effect of crisis upon innovation, particularly medical innovation, remains a debatable subject. In addition, the role of inter-personal relations is becoming more widely acknowledged as a critical feature of innovation. Drawing upon exaptation literature, the study aims to understand the nature of the micro-relations within medical innovations that are undertaken in response to COVID-19. The findings of this paper contribute to the limited literature that examines the performance of medical innovation in response to crisis. In addition to confirming the importance of exaptive pools, exaptive events, and exaptive forums in fostering serendipitous developments, the study makes a contribution to theory by identifying a further form of serendipitous encounter that is 'exaptive relations'.
新冠疫情给医疗保健行业带来了巨大冲击。对此，许多不同的公共和私人组织共同努力，以推动医疗创新。危机对创新，尤其是医疗创新的影响，仍是一个有争议的话题。此外，人际关系的作用作为创新的一个关键特征，正得到越来越广泛的认可。借鉴扩展适应文献，本研究旨在了解应对新冠疫情所开展的医疗创新中微观关系的本质。本文的研究结果为考察应对危机的医疗创新绩效的有限文献做出了贡献。除了证实扩展适应库、扩展适应事件和扩展适应论坛在促进意外发现方面的重要性之外，该研究还通过识别“扩展适应关系”这种意外相遇的进一步形式，为理论做出了贡献。
