Department of Science & Research Policy, National Research Institute for Science Policy, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Information Technology Management, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
Health Res Policy Syst. 2024 Jun 13;22(1):69. doi: 10.1186/s12961-024-01148-0.
Facing global grand challenges such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) require the participation of various actors in different sectors and systematically directing their innovative efforts. Considering the complexity, non-linear dynamics, and global extent of the COVID-19 challenge, developing and applying a multi-level, resilient, and systematic innovative framework is vital. Therefore, this study aims to apply the "innovation biosphere" framework inspired by ecological studies for examining and analysing the management dimensions of COVID-19.
In this research, based on a deductive-inductive approach, the case study methodology is used. In accordance with this strategy, the innovation biosphere metaphor is considered as the basic framework (deductive approach) and subsequently the grand challenge of COVID-19 (inductive approach) is analysed at three levels: micro, meso and macro.
The research findings verify the correspondence between what happened in the management of COVID-19 and the proposed framework of innovation biosphere. In other words, the findings of the research show that the effect of global cooperation, role-playing and co-evolution of different actors and subsystems in facing the grand challenge of COVID-19 under an ecosystemic and eco-innovation approach has been evident. These events subsequently led to the cessation of the pandemic after about four years.
The main policy implications include the role of self-organization, the capability of global value networks, mission orientation, and co-evolution between actors as the contributions of innovation biosphere framework for managing grand health challenges, and global cohesion, oligopoly market, supporting local innovations, the critical role of basic research, and deregulation as the contributions of the COVID-19 case study for enhancing the innovation biosphere metaphor.
面对 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）等全球性重大挑战，需要不同部门的各种行为者参与，并系统地引导他们的创新努力。考虑到 COVID-19 挑战的复杂性、非线性动态和全球性，开发和应用多层次、有弹性和系统的创新框架至关重要。因此，本研究旨在应用受生态研究启发的“创新生物圈”框架，考察和分析 COVID-19 的管理维度。
在这项研究中，我们采用了演绎-归纳的方法，即案例研究方法。根据这一策略，将创新生物圈隐喻视为基本框架（演绎方法），随后在微观、中观和宏观三个层面上分析 COVID-19 的大挑战（归纳方法）。
研究结果证实了在 COVID-19 管理中发生的情况与提出的创新生物圈框架之间的一致性。换句话说，研究结果表明，在生态系统和生态创新方法下，面对 COVID-19 这一重大挑战，全球合作、不同行为者和子系统的角色扮演和共同进化的作用是明显的。这些事件随后导致大流行在大约四年后结束。
主要的政策含义包括自组织的作用、全球价值链的能力、使命导向以及行为者之间的共同进化，这些都是创新生物圈框架在管理重大健康挑战方面的贡献，而全球凝聚力、寡头垄断市场、支持本地创新、基础研究的关键作用和放松管制则是 COVID-19 案例研究为增强创新生物圈隐喻所做出的贡献。
