Convergent innovation for sustainable economic growth and affordable universal healthcare: Innovating the way we innovate

Laurette Dubé, Srivardhini Jha, Aida Faber, Jeroen Struben, Ted London, Archisman Mohapatra, Nick Drager, Chris Lannon, P. K. Joshi and John Mcdermott
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Laurette Dubé: McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]
Srivardhini Jha: McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute [Washington] - CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR]
Aida Faber: McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]
Jeroen Struben: McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]
Ted London: University of Michigan [Ann Arbor] - University of Michigan System
Nick Drager: McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], LSHTM - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Chris Lannon: McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]
P. K. Joshi: IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute [India] - IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute [Washington] - CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR]
John Mcdermott: IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute [India] - IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute [Washington] - CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR], CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR]

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Abstract: This paper introduces convergent innovation (CI) as a form of meta‐innovation—an innovation in the way we innovate. CI integrates human and economic development outcomes, through behavioral and ecosystem transformation at scale, for sustainable prosperity and affordable universal health care within a whole‐of‐society paradigm. To this end, CI combines technological and social innovation (including organizational, social process, financial, and institutional), with a special focus on the most underserved populations. CI takes a modular approach that convenes around roadmaps for real world change—a portfolio of loosely coupled complementary partners from the business community, civil society, and the public sector. Roadmaps serve as collaborative platforms for focused, achievable, and time‐bound projects to provide scalable, sustainable, and resilient solutions to complex challenges, with benefits both to participating partners and to society. In this paper, we first briefly review the literature on technological innovation that sets the foundations of CI and motivates its feasibility. We then describe CI, its building blocks, and enabling conditions for deployment and scaling up, illustrating its operational forms through examples of existing CI‐sensitive innovation.

Keywords: Innovation; Convergent innovation; Health; Agriculture; Business; Vulnerability; Industrialization; Collaborative interdependence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12-01
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Published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2014, 1331 (1), 119-141 p. ⟨10.1111/nyas.12548⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12548

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