from the Article: "Operating rooms (ORs) more and more evolve into high-tech environments with increasing pressure on finances, logistics, and a not be neglected impact on patient safety. Safe and cost-effective implementation of technological equipment in ORs is notoriously difficult to manage, specifically as generic implementation activities omit as hospitals have implemented local policies for implementations of technological equipment. )e purpose of this study is to identify success factors for effective implementations of new technologies and technological equipment in ORs, based on a systematic literature review. We accessed ten databases and reviewed included articles. )e search resulted in 1592 titles for review, and finally 37 articles were included in this review. We distinguish influencing factors and resulting factors based on the outcomes of this research. Six main categories of influencing factors on successful implementations of medical equipment in ORs were identified: “processes and activities,” “staff,” “communication,” “project management,” “technology,” and “training.” We identified a seventh category “performance” referring to resulting factors during implementations. We argue that aligning the identified influencing factors during implementation impacts the success, adaptation, and safe use of new technological equipment in the OR and thus the outcome of an implementation. The identified categories in literature are considered to be a baseline, to identify factors as elements of a generic holistic implementation model or protocol for new technological equipment in ORs."
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Business innovation is a multidisciplinary area of expertise that bridges the gap between traditional areas of study such as business administration, organizational studies, marketing, design, engineering and entrepreneurship. Business innovation focuses on creating, accelerating and managing new and sustainable business models through innovation (Crossan and Apaydin, 2010; Keeley, Walters, Pikkel, and Quinn, 2013).
Full text via link. This research project investigates the connection between internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and innovation in de context of the Utrecht region in the Netherlands. The study makes use of unique data accomplished of with the help of Syntens, the regional agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs that aims to support the SME innovation. The research group International Business and Innovation was asked to evaluate the effectiveness of consultancy with respect to internationalisation. To this end 173 firms returned a questionnaire on their internationalisation success, innovation and the role of public consulting and subsidies. This dataset allows us to analyse the connection between internationalisation and innovation of Dutch SMEs in great detail.
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Genematics aims to help life science researchers and medical specialists to discover, interpret and communicate valuable patterns in biological data. Our software combines the recovery of data from public scientific resources with instant interpretation. It does so in such a way that the expert only needs a few seconds instead of hours or even days to retrieve answers from the available biological data. Use of our software should accelerate the research for new drugs, new treatments and other innovations in health-related research to build a better tomorrow.
In samenwerking met het Saxion FabLab Enschede zijn veel ZZP en MKB bedrijven bezig met innovatie. Daarbij is het opgevallen dat er steeds meer aanvragen op het gebied van Health producten binnenkomen, veelal hulpmiddelen. Om deze specifieke groep innovators beter faciliteren is er behoefte aan een Health Innovation FabLab werkwijze, waar een innovatie traject is ontwikkeld waar de disciplines gezondheidzorg, technologie en business ontwikkeling geïntegreerd aan bod komen., Hierdoor moet het mogelijk zijn sneller, betere producten te ontwikkelen. Het betreft het volledige traject van, het opstellen van een correct pakket van eisen, design consideraties binnen de Health sector, prototype development, gebruikstesten en functionele testen , en aspecten die betrekking hebben op het op de markt brengen van het product toegespitst op het MKB. Hierdoor faciliteert het Health Innovation FabLab niet enkel bij met ‘Rapid Prototyping’, maar ook met ‘Rapid Innovation & Realisation’ waardoor de algehele productontwikkeling wordt versneld en time-to-market voor het MKB wordt verminderd. In feite betreft het een crossover van de Topsectoren Creatieve Industrie en Health Sciences & Life. De methodieken en mogelijkheden van de ontwerpers en makers zoals gebruikelijk in het Fablab worden aangevuld en geïntegreerd met kennis en werkwijzen vanuit de zorg en ondernemersschap, aan de hand van twee cases die zijn ingebracht door mkb-bedrijven Pita Medical en B.J.Bulsink beheer. Het betreft respectievelijk de Hermocool-er (ten behoeve van bestrijding van aambeien) en een Respiration-logger (trainer van ademhalingsgewoonten). Beide cases hebben gemeen dat ze de zelfstandigheid van patiënten vorderen en kosten medische zorg reduceren. Aan de hand van de ervaringen met deze cases willen kunnen de behoeften van het MKB m.b.t. innovaties binnen Health in kaart worden gebracht, en een aanzet worden gegeven voor een specifiek ontwikkel traject worden opgezet voor MKB-ers welke samenkomen in het Health Innovation FabLab.
Lightweight, renewable origin, mild processing, and facile recyclability make thermoplastics the circular construction materials of choice. However, in additive manufacturing (AM), known as 3D printing, mass adoption of thermoplastics lags behind. Upon heating into the melt, particles or filaments fuse first in 2D and successively in 3D, realizing unprecedented geometrical freedom. Despite a scientific understanding of fusion, industrial consortium experts are still confronted with inferior mechanical properties of fused weld interfaces in reality. Exemplary is early mechanical failure in patient-specific and biodegradable medical devices based on Corbion’s poly(lactides), and more technical constructs based on Mitsubishi’s poly(ethylene terephthalate), PET. The origin lies in contradictory low rate of polymer diffusion and entangling, and too high rate of crystallization that is needed to compensate insufficient entangling. Knowing that Zuyd University in close collaboration with Maastricht University has eliminated these contradictory time-scales for PLA-based systems, Corbion and Mitsubishi contacted Zuyd with the question to address and solve their problem. In previous research it has been shown that interfacial co-crystallization of alternating depositioned opposite stereo-specific PLA grades resulted in strengthening of the interface. To promote mass adoption of thermoplastics AM industries, the innovation question has been phrased as follows: What is a technically scalable route to induce toughness in additively manufactured thermoplastics? High mechanical performance translates into an intrinsic brittle to tough transition of stereocomplex reinforced AM products, focusing on fused deposition modeling. Taking the professional request on biocompatibility, engineering performance and scalability into account, the strategies in lowering the yield stress and/or increasing the network strength comprise (i) biobased and biocompatible plasticizers for stereocomplexed poly(lactide), (ii) interfacial co-crystallization of intrinsically tough polyester based materials formulations, and (iii) in-situ interfacial transesterification of recycled PET formulations.
