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'Healthy Innovation' Workshop

8th-10th July, 2004
University of Manchester,
Manchester. UK

An International Workshop to be held at the University of Manchester, 8th-10th July, 2004.

Jointly organised by the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, and the Centre for the History of Science Technology and Medicine with the support of the ESRC Programme on Innovative Health Technologies.

Venue: The ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, Harold Hankins Building, University of Manchester, M13 9QH, UK.

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Focus of the Workshop

The past two decades have witnessed a considerable interest in the processes of innovation in medicine and the consequences of medical innovation for human welfare. Medicine is a central element in the service economy and it is supported by an extensive medical industry and medical knowledge support system in all the advanced countries. This workshop sought to deepen and extend our knowledge of medical innovation processes from a comparative and historical perspective with a focus upon particular case studies of innovations, their genesis and application, the development of medical innovation systems and the evolution of medical innovation policies.

Some of the key themes delegates were asked to address include:

Whether it is possible to identify generic and field specific obstacles to innovation
Whether there are qualitatively distinct patterns of innovation emerge during the past decade as a result of the ‘problems’ medical science seeks to address?
What ‘progress’ means in health innovation?
How any critique might offer new directions for policy in regard to health innovation?

More information about this workshop and other IHT projects/workshops can be found at http://www.york.ac.uk/res/iht/cfm/news.cfm

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