TY - JOUR ID - 4274 TI - Strategic Encounters in Innovation and Regulation: Healthcare Transformation in the Era of Digital Connectivity; Comment on “What Managers Find Important for Implementation of Innovations in the Healthcare Sector – Practice Through Six Management Perspectives” JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Mendonça, Sandro AU - Damásio, Bruno AU - Santiago, Fernando AU - Chen, Martin AU - Santos, António Bob AU - e Cunha, Miguel Pina AU - Nicita, António AD - BRU-IUL and ISCTE Business School, Lisbon, Portugal AD - NOVA Information Management School (NOVA IMS), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Campolide, 1070-312 Lisboa, Portugal AD - UNIDO, Vienna, Austria AD - Links Medical Scientific, Co. Ltd., Irvine, CA, USA AD - DireçãoGeral do Ensino Superior, Lisboa, Portugal AD - Nova School of Business and Economics, Lisbon, Portugal AD - Università di Roma LUMSA, Roma, Italy Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 11 IS - 12 SP - 3114 EP - 3117 KW - Strategic Encounters KW - innovation management KW - Regulation KW - Healthcare DO - 10.34172/ijhpm.2022.7271 N2 - Healthcare innovations emerge and develop in institutionally dense selective environments. New projects and propositions in healthcare sectoral ecosystems can be understood as product-service compacts, that is, complex solutions that dynamically integrate tangible and intangible elements in close interaction with users’ needs and the evolving regulatory context under uncertainty and ambiguity. We advance the concept of “strategic encounters” to encapsulate, capitalise and extend the contribution by Palm and Fischier’s on the key enabling managerial factors for healthcare innovation implementation under conditions of imperfect foresight. We intertwine creative assemblages that shape the formation of knowledge-intensive activities at the operators’ level with scope of sectoral level interventions to underscore how the opportunities and constraints can enhance innovation for the common good. We use the case of digital data health regulatory agendas as illustration. We argue that this broader perspective on healthcare transformation is theoretically pertinent and practically useful, for management and policy. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4274.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4274_6bf63b974fc87dfb223edf3dc3b5f201.pdf ER -