Research on the Cultivation of College Students’ Innovation Ability and the Development of Self-Survival Innovation Team from the Perspective of Green Ecology

Self-survival innovation teams composed of college students are considered incubators for future entrepreneurs. Stability is the prerequisite for team survival, while sustainable development is the necessary condition for their continuous progress. The development of members and the team are interrelated. In the continuous development of the team, the members, who contribute to the development of the team, change iteratively, while the team provides opportunities and platforms for the development of the members. However, at present, there are few researches on the sustainable development of the team and the data analysis on the correlation between the member development and the team construction. Therefore, in order to make a systematic analysis on the sustainable development ability of the team, this paper adopts questionnaires to obtain relevant information about college students and their innovation team. SPSS software (25.0) is used to make statistical analysis on the current development of college students’ individual ability and innovation team. Based on this, the paper puts forward analysis strategies for the personal development of college students and the construction of self-survival innovation team.

An action researcher in an advisor’s hat: A short reflection on lessons the OECD has learned from undertaking action research in the realm of policy and politics

Action research has enormous potential for policymakers, and those who advise them, to work in more iterative, reflective, and collaborative ways. For complex systems facing wicked problems, any approach that gets it closer to framing a problem well and drawing upon diverse forms of knowledge to bring about change, is good. Advisors who do action research in policymaking or political settings should be sensitive to the fact that this methodology may confound expectations regarding the ‘traditional’ advisor role. As such, some careful navigation of this approach (and what it means for the relationship and perception policymakers may have with those they engage to advise them) is required. This opinion piece shares lessons from an advisor working in the OECD’s innovation team, which embraced the action research methodology to reflect on and design innovative policy interventions with public sector policymakers. Action researchers who are using this methodology to produce policy advice may be more successful in auguring, and better navigating, new kinds of relationships with government if they heed the following lessons: frame the value of action research with decision makers, diversify your data and follow the story, and prime practitioners to participate.

Dealing with Not-Knowing in Inbound Open Innovation: A High-Tech Innovation Case

Knowledge and innovation are two inseparable topics in the literature on knowledge management or innovation. Most often, when scholars write about knowledge management, they refer to innovation as the key objective. Some argue that using the knowledge available beyond a firm’s boundaries (open innovation) leads to increased innovativeness, while others talk of the knowledge-creating firm. However, current literature provides us with limited insights on how the innovation team deals with externally developed knowledge or how it comes into the innovation creation process. Managing teamwork innovation endeavours in technology development is challenging since the outcome is often uncertain as well as inputs along that path. This paper attempts to open the backbox of open innovation and suggests that innovating teams entwine externally developed knowledge through the process of dealing with not-knowing.

Research on innovation management of science and technology innovation team members based on constructive conflict evolution game

How to give full play to the positive function of constructive conflicts (task conflicts and process conflicts) in the science and technology innovation team, give appropriate stimulation, mobilize the enthusiasm of employees and improve the team’s innovative ability to improve team performance and organizational effectiveness are issues that deserve both team leaders’ and scholars’ attention. Through selecting multiple medical technology R&D personnel from a specific science and technology innovation team of health organization, the research studies the constructive conflicts among the members of the science and technology innovation team, constructs and analyzes the conflict evolution game model, proposes countermeasures and suggestions for improving the innovation ability of the science and technology innovation team and discusses the innovation management mechanism of the science and technology innovation team. The study shows that task conflicts, process conflicts and innovation game decisions cannot be avoided. The unstable choice of members does not promote innovation. However, on the one hand, constructive conflicts can be controlled to maintain a moderate state of control. On the other hand, it is also necessary to establish a mutually trusting communication environment and convenient communication channels in the science and technology innovation team, combined with modern information management technology, to handle the problems that were difficult to be found or accumulated for a long time under the previous management mechanism and cooperate with the science and technology innovation team to improve the technology innovation team’s innovation capability.

The Hepatic Innovation Team Collaborative: A Successful Population-Based Approach to Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surveillance

After implementing a successful hepatitis C elimination program, the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) Hepatic Innovation Team (HIT) Collaborative pivoted to focus on improving cirrhosis care. This national program developed teams of providers across the country and engaged them in using systems redesign methods and population health approaches to improve care. The HIT Collaborative developed an Advanced Liver Disease (ALD) Dashboard to identify Veterans with cirrhosis who were due for surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and other liver care, promoted the use of an HCC Clinical Reminder in the electronic health record, and provided training and networking opportunities. This evaluation aimed to describe the VHA’s approach to improving cirrhosis care and identify the facility factors and HIT activities associated with HCC surveillance rates, using a quasi-experimental design. Across all VHA facilities, as the HIT focused on cirrhosis between 2018–2019, HCC surveillance rates increased from 46% (IQR 37–53%) to 51% (IQR 42–60%, p < 0.001). The median HCC surveillance rate was 57% in facilities with high ALD Dashboard utilization compared with 45% in facilities with lower utilization (p < 0.001) and 58% in facilities using the HCC Clinical Reminder compared with 47% in facilities not using this tool (p < 0.001) in FY19. Increased use of the ALD Dashboard and adoption of the HCC Clinical Reminder were independently, significantly associated with HCC surveillance rates in multivariate models, controlling for other facility characteristics. In conclusion, the VHA’s HIT Collaborative is a national healthcare initiative associated with significant improvement in HCC surveillance rates.