Innovation and Social Investment Programs in Europe

Innovation in Rehabilitation Services and Clinical Programs for Health Care

Rehabilitation program is a critical piece of clinical care strategy in order to accelerate healing and improve quality of life to the fullest extent possible. An innovated program should have 3 inspiring concepts: Seek inspire and Advance. Seeking and evaluating is a breakthrough technology, innovative methodology and emerging trend in the healthcare industry. The program should inspire clinic...

Skills, social insurance, and changes in innovation investment after the onset of the financial crisis in Europe

Civil society organisations, social innovation and health research in Europe.

BACKGROUND European Union strategies and programmes identify research and innovation as a critical dimension for future economic and social development. While European research policy emphasizes support for industry, the health field includes not-for-profit civil society organisations (CSOs) providing social innovation. Yet, the perspectives of CSOs towards health research in Europe are not wel...

A Social Innovation Investment Appraisal Method and Tool

This paper describes a methodology, and its implementation in a tool, that is designed to make it easier to produce an investment appraisal and business case for projects with social outcomes and longer-term benefits external to the primary project initiator. This meets a need common to innovative public and charity sector projects which typically focus on a wide range of outcomes that extend b...

Investment in Innovation

Can the American economy achieve sustainable prosperity --a progressive spreading of the benefits of economic growth to more and more people over a prolonged period of time? During the first half of the twentieth century, despite the debacle of the Great Depression, the United States emerged as the world's most powerful industrial nation. In the 1950s and 1960s the United States had not only by...