It creates a center to generate innovations in paying for and organizing care.
"I think the real value of aid is in promoting and digging deep into something, and committing to generate innovations," he explains.
With a work force that includes 150,000 engineers and scientists, I.B.M. makes huge investments in research and development to generate innovations that can be patented.
Futures Clinique is a participatory and exploratory futures workshop used to tackle uncertainties, identify disruptions and generate innovations [72].
Indeed, companies that operate and develop new technologies and/or are intensive in the use of knowledge, but especially those that generate innovations, show higher death rates.
Therefore, it is not only important to generate innovations (via investments in R&D) but it is also important that such innovations are adopted and used by firms.
This paper introduces, illustrates and evaluates the concept of Futures Clinique, which is a participatory and exploratory futures workshop and a collective futures research method to tackle uncertainties, identify disruptions and generate innovations.
Cities create environmental problems as they grow, of course, but they also generate innovations to solve those problems, such as catalytic converters to reduce air pollution, and vaccines to keep epidemic diseases in check.
