@article { author = {Costa, Cátia Miriam}, title = {Beyond Organisational Borders: The Soft Power of Innovation in the Health Sector; Comment on “What Managers Find Important for Implementation of Innovations in the Healthcare Sector – Practice Through Six Management Perspectives”}, journal = {International Journal of Health Policy and Management}, volume = {11}, number = {12}, pages = {3125-3128}, year = {2022}, publisher = {Kerman University of Medical Sciences}, issn = {2322-5939}, eissn = {2322-5939}, doi = {10.34172/ijhpm.2022.7270}, abstract = {Health is not just a physiological state, it is also a relational phenomenon. This means health is a collective challenge, often a cross-border one. Diplomacy in the health sector has progressively received more attention from formal actors (national states, international organisations, etc) but after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) challenge, this attention became a global emergency mobilising an expansive set of knowledge-seeking players (industry, research networks, civil society, etc). This paper comments on and leverages the contribution by Palm and Feschier on innovation management at the organisational level to address a complementary dimension: the internationalization process, and the need for a particular set of skills and routines to make innovations travel through different markets and regulatory contexts. Our argument is that marketing (knowing about customers) and diplomacy (understanding framing institutions) constitute a set of dynamic capabilities (soft power) that are critical for the effective internationalization of innovation.}, keywords = {Health,Innovation,Internationalisation,Diplomacy,Knowledge Transfer,science and technology}, url = {https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4288.html}, eprint = {https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4288_4092c80769c3ea1800af467b5eb1502b.pdf} }