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A public arena for sustainable health and safety innovation: guidelines for research and practice

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  • E. Roland Andersson
  • Jan Lundblad
  • Bjarne Jansson

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Evaluations of science parks show limited results, despite huge investments in staff and technology, i.e. a low level of sustainability. We present an innovation service and arena with a significant higher outcome of innovations. The arena is based on experiences mainly from three serially related action-studies on innovation in health and safety, and the assumption that all ideas in innovation must be tested naturally in a systems context and not rationally. The idea is then to capture all ideas extremely early in the innovation process (in principle before other similar institutions) where the inventor himself is prepared to test his idea. This means that all inventors, with the advice and mentorship of experienced researchers and innovators, themselves can be given the chance to establish whether their idea is sustainable or not. Our experience from testing such a subsidised innovation service shows that it could give significant effects on sustainable product innovation in occupational health and safety. We have summarised our experiences in a guideline in order to spread and improve the efficiency of sustainable innovation.

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  • E. Roland Andersson & Jan Lundblad & Bjarne Jansson, 2012. "A public arena for sustainable health and safety innovation: guidelines for research and practice," International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 6(3), pages 324-343.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijisde:v:6:y:2012:i:3:p:324-343
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    1. Rob Lubberink & Vincent Blok & Johan Van Ophem & Onno Omta, 2017. "Lessons for Responsible Innovation in the Business Context: A Systematic Literature Review of Responsible, Social and Sustainable Innovation Practices," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(5), pages 1-31, May.
    2. Benoît Desmarchelier & Faridah Djellal & Faïz Gallouj, 2018. "Public Service Innovation Networks (PSINs): Collaborating for Innovation and Value Creation," Working Papers halshs-01934275, HAL.
    3. Benoît Desmarchelier & Faridah Djellal & Faïz Gallouj, 2020. "Towards a servitization of innovation networks: a mapping," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(9), pages 1368-1397, July.
    4. Benoît Desmarchelier & Faridah Djellal & Faïz Gallouj, 2019. "Towards a servitization of innovation networks: from traditional innovation networks to public service innovation networks for social innovation," Post-Print halshs-03177975, HAL.

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