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Bernard Boakye-AframNeuromechanics Group Seminar
Simon Fraser University
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN GLOBAL HEALTH
Trend of Global Health Needs
An Inconvenient Truth: Business School Ideas are not always applicable◦ Product and process are separable◦ Compliance Issues: Cultural Resistance, Lack of a
social context
Challenges of Global Health Innovation
User based needs assessment Very expensive Difficulty with technology
Suggested Models for Innovation
Open Innovation works
Suggested Models for Innovation
Reverse Innovation
Suggested Models for Innovation
Magnet Effect: Using innovation to attract communities to health care facility
Professional Satisfaction/retention
Align innovation with short-term objectives of elected public office holders