Supporting Future Surgical Innovation

Supporting cost-effective innovation

innovation &IN THE NANOSCALE regime, speed and density of semiconductor technology continue to increase. However, skyrocketing design costs for developing gigascale system chips have effectively slowed the creation of new design projects. Such a trend could stifle further innovation and advancement in the semiconductor industry. A recent joint report from the Semiconductor Research Corporation ...

Interoperability Concept Supporting Network Innovation

Innovation capability in creating new offering and new business models by distributed communities is becoming more important. Competitive advantage can be achieved by knowledge communities. Increasing share of the innovation process is taking place outside the company. This is due to increasing complexity of products and services containing multiple technologies that are not developed inside th...

Innovation for the Future

Surgical innovation: the ethical agenda

The aim of the present article was to systematically review the ethics of surgical innovation and introduce the components of the learning health care system to guide future research and debate on surgical innovation.Although the call for evidence-based practice in surgery is increasingly high on the agenda, most surgeons feel that the format of the randomized controlled trial is not suitable f...

Challenges in evaluating surgical innovation.

Research on surgical interventions is associated with several methodological and practical challenges of which few, if any, apply only to surgery. However, surgical evaluation is especially demanding because many of these challenges coincide. In this report, the second of three on surgical innovation and evaluation, we discuss obstacles related to the study design of randomised controlled trial...