Sustainability

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Through a multiple case study involving 30 organizations in the province of Québec (Canada) and in the state of São Paulo (Brazil), this paper identifies the contextual dimensions that both contribute to and constrain the emergence of responsibility in food systems. The findings can inform research and policy aiming to design institutional environments that promote a transition towards more responsible food systems.

Pozelli Sabio, R., Lehoux, P. (2022). How does context contribute to and constrain the emergence of responsible innovation in food systems? Results from a multiple case study. Sustainability. 14(13), 7776.

The BMJ

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In this editorial, we comment the Goldacre report, the UK’s roadmap towards “better, broader, and safer” use of health data for research and analysis. Among other things, we discuss the high environmental cost of mining data, and point out that it would make sense to reward the development of more responsible, sustainable, and inclusive digital infrastructures.

Lehoux, P. & Rivard, L. (2022). Major public works ahead for a healthy data-centric NHS, The BMJ.

Health Policy and Technology

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In this article, we explore the perspectives of entrepreneurs producing innovation in health who have received support from incubators or accelerators. We examine how the benefits vary depending on when and how the responsible health entrepreneurs received this support.

Silva, H. P., Lehoux, P. & Sabio, R. P. (2022). Is there a fit between incubators and ventures producing responsible innovations in health?, Health Policy and Technology.

Health Services Management Research

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In this article, we explore the role that healthcare and social service managers can play in developing innovation to address health system challenges. Using the Responsible Innovation in Health (RIH) framework, we analyze 37 interviews we conducted with Canadian and Brazilian innovators. We sought to identify how they implement inclusive design processes, what influences the responsiveness of their innovation to system challenges, and how they consider the level and intensity of care required by their innovation.

Lehoux, P., Silva, H. P., Rocha de Oliveira, R., Sabio, R. P., & Malas, K. (2021). Responsible innovation in health and health system sustainability: Insights from health innovators’ views and practices, Health Services Management Research.

Journal of Product Innovation Management

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In this paper, we describe the challenges faced by organizations implementing new business models to develop and disseminate responsible innovations. By documenting the entrepreneurial challenges of 16 Canadian and Brazilian organizations (for-profit and non-profit), we develop an empirical model that clarifies what it means to create economic, social and environmental value.

Lehoux, P., Silva, H. P., Denis, J-L., , Miller, F. A., Pozelli Sabio, R., Mendell, M. (2021). Moving Toward Responsible Value Creation: Business Model Challenges Faced By Organizations Producing Responsible Health Innovations, Journal of Product Innovation Management.

 

 

Design Studies

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Guided by Tronto’s (1993) ethic of care framework and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), this qualitative study focuses on the ways in which health innovation designers reason around care and responsibility and translate these notions into their work. The exploratory findings provide a novel empirical basis for scholars to conceptualize health innovation designers as ‘care-makers’ and to integrate designers within the care relationship alongside caregivers and care-receivers.

Social Science & Medicine

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The challenge of novel and high cost health technologies has encouraged the growth of regulatory agencies such as Health Technology Assessment (HTA) organizations and Group Procurement Organizations (GPO). Yet the existence of several agencies in the same polycentric regulatory regime raises questions about whether and how their work can be coordinated. Drawing on a case study of GPOs and HTA agencies across four provinces in Canada, we explore the separate evolution of these agencies, emerging connections between them for non-drug technologies, and the organizational processes and evaluative judgments that underpin coordination efforts.

Miller, A. F., Lehoux, P., Rac, V. E., P. Bytautas, J. P., Krahn, M., Peacock, S. (2020). Modes of coordination for health technology adoption: Health Technology Assessment agencies and Group Procurement Organizations in a polycentric regulatory regime, Social Science & Medicine.

Journal of Responsible Innovation

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In the field of Responsible Research and Innovation (RIR), tools have been developed to enable entrepreneurs to integrate RIR principles into their practices. While these tools may include measurable self-assessment indicators, external assessment approaches have so far received little attention. This study addresses this gap by applying the Responsible Innovation in Health (RIH) Tool, which adopts an external assessment approach, to 16 health innovations from Canada and Brazil.

Lehoux, P., Silva, H. P., Oliveira, R.R., Rivard, L. (2020). The responsible innovation in health tool and the need to reconcile formative and summative ends in RRI tools for business, Journal of Responsible Innovation.

BMJ Quality & Safety

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Although Do-It-Yourself and open access health innovations can offer interesting solutions for patients with needs that are currently not met by the medical industry, they pose new dilemmas in terms of quality and safety. In this study, the authors seek to better understand the dilemmas raised by two examples of popular innovations. To do so, they gathered the views of health care innovators who are familiar with medical device standards and regulations in order to identify practical issues and develop recommendations for public policy. 

Rivard, L., Lehoux, P., Alami, H. “It’s not just hacking for the sake of it”: a qualitative study of health innovators’ views on patient-driven open innovations, quality and safety,