Encouraging Innovation, Unintended Consequences, and Group-Level Research

Encouraging innovation, unintended consequences, and group-level research.

200 Primary care clinicians face a daunting set of challenges in today’s health care environment. Health care reform is creating a constantly evolving context for providing care. Time and productivity pressures contrast with a growing set of clinical expectations and responsibilities in the patient encounter. Chronic and behavioral conditions increasingly dominate the lives of our patients, yet...

Polymorphic Innovation through Unintended Consequences

This paper re-interprets Short Messaging Service (SMS) systems as emergent technology, the impact of which has accidentally been instrumental in the configuration of a range of applications that are transforming social networking. The case study presented describes the implementation of the Trigger, an application that provides students’ with SMS reminders in the higher education context. An ob...

Unintended Consequences: How Qualification Constrains Innovation

The development and implementation of new materials and manufacturing processes for aerospace application is often hindered by the high cost and long time span associated with current qualification procedures. The data requirements necessary for material and process qualification are extensive and often require millions of dollars and multiple years to complete. Furthermore, these qualification...

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Encouraging innovation

Innovation is central to the scientific endeavor, and yet the current system of funding in the United States discourages innovation, especially in the young. Subtle alterations to the funding system, guided in part by the success of the European Research Council, could have major effects on encouraging innovation.