New Building Blocks and Architectures
ResearchPosted on rand.org May 1, 2015Published in: Health Innovation Systems, Equity and Development / edited by José E. Cassiolato and Maria Clara C. Soares (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: E-papers Serviços Editoriais, 2015), Chapter 3, p. 107-130
This chapter considers some dimensions of current uncertainty and the underlying and common pressures for improved health research and innovation systems that result in benefits for patients. Both regulatory reform and social technology experiments can be used to remove elements of the institutional environment which hinder innovation.
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