Health care innovations across practice and academia: A theoretical framework

Reducing the Innovation Knowledge Gap by Developing Innovativeness Across Academia and Practice for Healthcare Progress Scale

“…I learned about the concept of innovativeness, which is a social process for the generation, acceptance, and implementation of new processes, products, or services for the 1st time in an organizational setting. My findings allowed me to document the theoretical foundations to innovate, 3 and subsequently, publications on the culture for innovations, [1][2][3][4] the process to innovate, [5][6][7] and how to teach innovation 8-10 have been disseminated.…”

“…However, opportunities exist because of differing perceptions, lack of knowledge, incongruences, and process needs. 1,2 These opportunities were the impetus to advance the Innovation SIG's research methodology from using inductive approaches (qualitative methods) to deductive approaches (quantitative methods). 12 Advancing our methodology would draw conclusions and predict outcomes related to innovation.…”

“…It has taken persistence to advance the thinking and pursuit of a collaborative research trajectory to generate the Innovativeness Across Academia and Practice for Health Care Progress Scale (IA-APHPS). 13 The team developed the 1st theoretically based survey, IA-APHPS. This validated measure now allows academia, practice, and industry nurses to strategically leverage synergy, increase capacity, improve our potential, and reduce partnering constraints.…”

“…The next step is to advance the field's knowledge about innovation using more quantitative approaches. The article in this month's issue titled, "Development and Testing of the Relational and Structural Components of Innovativeness Across Academia and Practice for Healthcare Progress Scale (IA-APHPS)," 13 shares additional ideas around future research to advance our knowledge. I hope many of you, whether in industry, practice, or academia, can participate in Iowa's journey with IA-APHPS to reduce the innovationknowledge gap.…”

Development and Testing of the Relational and Structural Components of Innovativeness Across Academia and Practice for Healthcare Progress Scale

“…Academic-practice leader incongruence may be related to the absence of a theoretical basis to drive APPs for healthcare. [9][10][11] There is evidence of 2 fundamental gaps: 1) a lack of consensus in understanding that knowledge generation and innovation are critical to managing scarce healthcare resources in today's world; and 2) the need to prioritize knowledge generation and innovation as much as fiscal management to solve problems and thrive. 12 Academics and practitioners alike clearly need a common language and shared model for understanding and planning APPs for innovativeness, which is defined as a social process for the generation, acceptance, and implementation of new processes, products, or services for the 1st time in an organizational setting.…”