Designing cross‐sector collaboration to foster technological innovation: Empirical insights from eHealth partnerships in five countries
研究了公共-私营创新伙伴关系的设计如何影响技术创新，通过比较五个欧洲国家的19个电子健康伙伴关系，发现小型、集中、同质的伙伴关系最成功。
Abstract This article examines the impact of partnership design on technological innovation in public‐private innovation partnerships. It develops two competing hypotheses on how specific partnership characteristics lead to innovation in health care services. The study compares 19 eHealth partnerships across five European countries and uses fuzzy‐set qualitative comparative analysis to test the hypotheses. The findings show that small, centralized, and homogeneous partnerships are most successful at achieving technological innovation. The study highlights the importance of partnership design in spurring innovation and calls for a reconsideration of some of the underlying assumptions of collaborative innovation theory.