Since the 1990s, it is official policy that the long-term future of each advanced industrial society has to be found in its capacity to generate new knowledge and to translate innovation into new companies and new products, which would create growth, jobs, and state revenues for financing welfare policies and infrastructures as well as research and innovation policies.
As country size is the most pronounced difference between Germany and Austria it could be that smaller countries, such as Austria, are more ready to translate innovation into practice.
Our informants have extensive experience translating, or attempting to translate, innovations from low-income countries into the US, including conditional cash transfer programs, community services, hospital accreditation schemes, and educational policies such as teaching HIV education in schools.
The CHPS initiative is a programme designed to translate innovations from the Navrongo experimental design into a national programme for improving accessibility, equity, efficiency, and quality health care services [ 15, 16].
Interviews were open-ended with guiding probes into the barriers and enablers to Reverse Innovation in the US context, specifically also to understand whether, in their experience translating or attempting to translate innovations from low-income contexts into the US, the source of the innovation matters in the adopter context.
Translating innovation, such as contemporary research evidence, into policy and practice is a challenge, not just in substance misuse treatment programs, but across all spheres of healthcare.
The question remains whether smaller countries have indeed a greater power for translating innovation into practice.
Canada needs to build capacity for learning from developing countries, translating innovations that are occurring into the Canadian context to achieve value for Canadians and sustainability for health systems.
How does genetic innovation translate into ecological innovation?
From this review we conclude that the generation of knowledge and innovation at the nanoscale far exceeds our ability to translate this innovation into practical outcomes addressing a market need, and that significant technological challenges exist.
Access to venture capital gives firms advantages that translate into innovation, fast growth, and job creation; hence, they make a disproportionate impact on economic development.
