Programmed Innovation in Team Sport Using Needs Driven Innovation

Innovation team of the year.

“A lovely doctor told me at seven o’clock this morning I could go home today, and I’m still here at five,” is a complaint that will ring a bell with many a patient. For University College Hospital in London it was one of a number of complaints made about delays on the day of discharge that helped prompt a new approach. The project, called Home for Lunch, began with orthopaedic consultant Sam Ou...

The Determination of Social Needs as Drivers of Social Innovation

Social innovation has been contextualized as a new way of resolving deeply entrenched development issues. The identification and resolution of social needs is said to be the driving force of social innovation. With features such as sustainability and scalability, social innovation has the potential to change the way we perceive and engage with development in the future. This research takes a cr...

Network-driven Context in User-driven Innovation

As new networks such as sensor and grid computing are developed, service providers, intermediaries, and users are exposed to an increasing number of contexts, which is a set of information that affects users’ behavior and value system in accordance with a network they belongs to. This paper proposes that citizens’ contextual data should be collected based on service quality, satisfaction, and t...

Innovation-driven growth in India

Innovation: a Data-driven Perspective

This focus of the paper is on innovation in product and service domains. The two are tightly interrelated, as the benefits of product innovation are realized through the business activities, and certain business undertakings may impact the product design innovation. A data-driven approach to innovation is proposed. It is a natural extension of the system of customer requirements in terms of the...