RNI 2019: RNI Forum Innovation IX & Summer School 2019 Parthenope University of Naples Naples, Italy, July 17-19, 2019 |
Conference website | http://rni-napoli2019.uniparthenope.it/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rni2019 |
Abstract registration deadline | March 31, 2019 |
Submission deadline | June 30, 2019 |
“Innovation for Health. Innovation for Life”
The world population is aging rapidly. Health players must ensure that all people grow older with security and dignity, participating in society as citizens with full rights. However, nowadays the universal access to healthcare and clinical assistance could become difficult to offer due to economic reasons. Health costs must be contained in order to create a sustainable health system. To this end, more actors with different decision-making powers (e.g., regional bodies, health departments and patients) intensively collaborate with firms and institutions to develop effective and innovative drugs and devices.
The aim of health innovation is to enable a variety of organizations (e.g., hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, national agencies and so on) to create in innovative ways value for patients, caregivers, clinicians, payers of health technologies and services (e.g., NHSs or insurance companies) and all the stakeholders involved in the healthcare process. To achieve this goal, healthcare organizations must adopt a flexible culture open to change and external collaboration. Health organizations must adapt their strategies, business models, projects and even redefine their mission to face effectively the new challenges about managing the access, value and sustainability of care (Elton and O’Riordan, 2016). Therefore, the use of push strategies and linear processes are necessary to support innovation. Disruptive innovation in healthcare is an important way to face this and other industry problems (Christensen, Grossman & Hwang, 2009).
A current key challenge within this industry refers also to the adoption and implementation of new health technologies. Nowadays new technologies and devices transform how health organizations and systems offer their product/services and deliver value (e.g., via app and sensors). In this direction, the rising paradigm of e-health offers critical future growth opportunities (Eysenbach G., 2001). For instance, doctors can design specific interventions tailored for their patients and monitor information about patients in real time (e.g. via smartphone, even remotely). This is a crucial point since, at the end, the ultimate goal of healthcare innovation and technology is to improve (and prolong) the life of people.
This conference aims to provide:
- new theoretical and practical tools;
- concepts and methods for innovation in healthcare;
- new health technologies to improve the life of people.
The aim is to contribute to the extant debate and our understanding about the dynamics of the healthcare industry (and its complementary sectors) by exploring the main opportunities, issues and challenges that lead health organizations and systems to create (or even to destroy) value and innovate. More in general, the conference organizers wills to host researchers interested in the understanding of how innovation can improve the quality of life of human beings.
Being a multidisciplinary meeting on innovation, the conference welcomes submissions from researchers in economics, policy-making, finance, accounting, organization studies, strategy, technology and innovation management, engineering, history and sociology. Potential authors interested in submitting a paper to the RRI conference on “Innovation for Health. Innovation for Life” could focus their submissions, for instance, on the organization of the health innovation processes and networks, specific application domains and their specificities, the required conditions (e.g. tools, methods, technologies, spaces), skills, routines, resources and competencies for innovation within these contexts.
We report some general research questions that authors interested in submitting a paper to this conference could consider: What is the added-value of new health technologies (e.g. wearable devices) to enrich the economics of institutions and healthcare services’ providers? How do innovative health technologies revolutionise healthcare markets and systems? How do health organizations differ in reacting to innovative industry changes and dynamics? What are the impacts on innovative financing modes (e.g. crowdfunding) on the commercialization and market access of new drugs or therapies? How do institutions and private companies co-innovate to improve the quality of life of people? What is the role of technology for the improvement of people life conditions?
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Authors are invited to submit original research contributions electronically, in WORD format, via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/cfp/RNI2019
All received extended abstracts will undergo a double blind peer review. Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least one of the authors must register at the Conference and present the paper.
Communication proposal:
Extended abstracts should not exceed two-pages and must contain the following information:
- Chosen topic(s) code: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- Title of the communication
- Authors’ name and mail address (Corresponding author should be identified)
- Keywords (4 max)
- Aim of the communication and originality of the subject
- Methodology
- Expected results and their implications on public policies
- References (10 max)
Important dates
– Extended Abstract or communication submission deadline: February 28, 2019
– Notification of acceptance: March 15 2019
– Registration deadline: June 10, 2019. Please note that registration is free for RNI members who are up-to-date on their subscription on April 30, 2019.
– Final paper and poster submission: June 10, 2019.
List of Topics
Application topics include, but are not limited to:
- Technological, organisational and social change in healthcare
- Economics of healthcare innovation
- Public policies and programmes supporting social and health innovation
- Strategic innovation in health services and products
- Industrial and technological dynamics in life sciences
- R&D and innovation in pharmaceutical industry
- Entrepreneurship, venture capital, growth and start-up companies in health and wellbeing sectors
- Interaction between public research organisations and biotechnological and pharmaceutical industries (e.g., technology transfer)
- Local innovation systems for an healthy and sustainable world
- Industrial dynamics and healthcare markets
- The future of Healthcare
Additionally to main key themes of the RNI conference, we will also host special track sessions.
1. Futures of Healthcare. Proponents: Francesco Schiavone, Marco Ferretti
2. Sustaining Networks for sustaining innovation. Proponents: Corinne Grenier, Ewan Oiry
3. Innovation management in Healthcare. Proponent: Giuseppe Festa
4. Intellectual Capital in Healthcare. Proponents: Francesco Schiavone, Beatrice Orlando
5. Marketing of Innovations for Wellbeing. Proponents: Nicoletta Buratti, Michele Simoni
6. Artificial Intelligence in Health and WellBeing. Proponent: Daniele Leone
Scientific committee
Lydie Ancelot, University of Poitiers (France)
Francesco Paolo Appio (Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci)
Alessandro Baroncelli (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart)
Patricia Baudier, EM Normandie (France)
Sophie Boutillier, University of Littoral Côte d’Opale (France)
Thierry Burger–Helmchen, University of Strasbourg (France)
Francesco Calza, University of Naples Parthenope (Italy)
Chiara Cannavale, University of Naples Parthenope (Italy)
Sylvaine Castellano, Paris School of Business (France)
Didier Castiel, Université Paris 13 (France)
Christophe Chauveau, University of Littoral Côte d’Opale (France)
Marc-Hubert Depret, University of Poitiers (France)
Luca Dezi, University of Naples Parthenope (Italy)
Sana Elouar Mrizak, University of Littoral Côte d’Opale (France)
Marco Ferretti, University of Naples Parthenope (Italy)
Roberto Gabriele, University of Trento (Italy)
Danielle Galliano , INRA Toulouse (France)
Corinne Grenier, Kedge Business School (France)
Pierre Hardouin, University of Littoral Côte d’Opale (France)
Hubert Hudebine, University of Brest (France)
Blandine Laperche; University of Littoral Côte d’Opale (France)
Marcos Lima, SKEMA Business School, University Côte d’Azur (France)
Simon Nadel, University of Lille (France)
Adele Parmentola, University of Naples Parthenope (Italy)
Bertrand Pauget, Karstad University (Sweden)
Paolo Popoli, University of Naples Parthenope (Italy)
Sophie Reboud, Burgundy School of Business (France)
Domenico Salvatore, University of Naples Parthenope (Italy)
Alessandro Sapio, University of Naples Parthenope (Italy)
Francesco Schiavone, University of Naples Parthenope (Italy) (Chairman)
Michele Simoni, University of Naples Parthenope (Italy)
Mariapina Trunfio, University of Naples Parthenope (Italy)
Corinne Tanguy, Agrosup Dijon (France)
Ludovic Temple, CIRAD (France)
Jean-Marc Touzard INRA (France)
Dimitri Uzunidis, University of Littoral Côte d’Opale (France)
Invited Speakers
- Alfredo De Massis
- Giovanni Dosi
Publication
All abstracts and papers received by the submission deadline will be evaluated in a double-blind review process. For those who are willing, the final accepted papers that are presented in the conference sessions will be published in the RNI Network on Innovation section entitled “working papers”
Venue
The conference will be held in Naples (Italy). The conference welcomes all researchers and encourages PhD students and young researchers to participate. The conference will offer keynote sessions with guest speakers, special sessions on key topics and a dedicated poster session for PhD students. A plenary session will conclude the two days. These two days will be complemented by cultural events. Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st July will be exclusively dedicated to cultural activities (program in progress).
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to