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The paper is based on a systematic review approach (Littell et al., 2008), which aims to make the literature selection and review process transparent and replicable. We started from the factual premise tgs across several

We have divided the innovation literature that deals with hospitals and innovation into three strands based on the main analytical units they try to describe or explain. The first group of studieff to the generation of innovations. The second group addresses, either conceptually or empirically, hospitals’ innovation activities, based on case studies or small sample studies of particular

The most obvious finding that emerges from our inspection of the literature is that the evidence base is highly heterogeneous. Relevant research has been published in several fields of science and various joueworks. Most empirical studies published on hospitals and innovation are implementation studies, particularly implementation of new treatment regimes, ICT tool

Thematically, there is no shortage of issues for further research on the role of hospitals as innovators. Fs.

Second, the growing and pervasive emphasis on “open” innovation models calls for a careful assessmeal partners ca

earch for this article was funded by the Research Council of Norway under the project “Synergies and tensions in innovation in the life sciences,” as well as by the South-Eastern Norway Regional Heledged. The pnts in medical innovation workshops held in Os