Vilken effekt har
innovationslussar?
Dr Peter Svensson, VINNOVA
Innovationssluss
The study – natural experiment
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3 years funding of 6 ”makerspaces” at regional
hospitals
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2 000 ideas/solutions, 55 innovations
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Prototyping, legal requirements, business advice,
contact with suppliers etc
Findings – Impact example
Akademiska University Hospital in Uppsala operated on 250 ankle fractures each year.
”We felt that the plastering was cumbersome and required
a lot of human resources. With the rail, it is also easier to
adjust the position of the foot if skewed or swelling”
Table 2
An example of an estimation of the economic impact by one innovation on the Swedish health care system
Calculation
Numbers
Saving of new procedure (fact)
4 operations instead of 3 per day
Test hospital amount of ankle operations per
year (fact)
250
Old procedure (fact)
250 operations / 3 per day = 83.3 days per year
New procedure (test)
250 operations / 4 per day = 62.5 days per year
Days saved at the OR
83.3 - 62.5 = appr 20 days
Minutes saved per year
20 days = 20 * 8h = 160h = 160 * 60 = 9600 minutes
Cost of OR per minute (fact)
250-350 SEK
Total saving in SEK
9600 min * 300 SEK/min = 2.88 MSEK per year
If the new innovation diffuses to all the
Swedish hospitals
2.9 * 30 = 87 MSEK (appr 10 USD)
DIAGRAM 1: INNOVATIONS DISTRIBUTED ON
POTENTIAL ECONOMIC IMPACT (MSEK)
300
250
200
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100
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Findings – Total Impact
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> 30 times return on investment if diffused
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Improved life-quality
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Jobs created, exports, hospitals attractive employees
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Findings 2 – Clinicians solve
their own problem
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95% of innovation focused on solving the clinicians’ own problem
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A majority of the innovators just want to use their innovations
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1 patient innovation = life-quality improvements for patient
Findings 3 – Diffusion problems
• 2 times return on investment 2015
• Intervention emphasizes on being entrepreneurial
• No diffusion expert at the makerspace
• Small market, producers are not interested (see example)
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Costs and impact
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MSEK
Costs
Actual
Potential
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