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20 hours

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Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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  • This course reflects on global health challenges and the role of innovative solutions in addressing them. By engaging in this course, you will be able to describe the principles and key types of innovation in order to characterise the fundamental features of new models of care and technologies.
  • This course will review the basic features and principles of healthcare innovation. You'll be examining innovations developed to address global health challenges, ranging from simple low-cost technologies readily deployed in resource constrained settings to more complex combinations of organizational, business model and technology innovations. Throughout this course, you'll also consider how adoption and diffusion is influenced by social, economic and political factors and explore what is required to get an innovation in to practice, effectively, at scale.
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INNOVATION VS. INVENTION

Welcome to Global Health Innovation

Innovation and invention: what is the difference?

What makes an innovation, an innovation?

About Imperial College

About the Global Health Innovations Team

How to be successful in this course?

Grading Policy

Glossary

What is an innovation?

What are some ways to classify an innovation?

Should innovation always occur?

Is it an innovation or not?

Test your knowledge on innovation

TYPES OF INNOVATION - DISRUPTIVE, FRUGAL AND REVERSE

What are disruptive innovations?

The development of a frugal innovation - Arbutus Drill: Interview with Florin Gheorghe

An expert's views on the meaning of frugal innovation: Interview with Dr Yasser Bhatti

Defining characteristics of frugal innovation: Interview with Dr Yasser Bhatti

What is reverse innovation?

The challenge of reverse innovation

Is Uber a disruptive innovation?

Are these disruptive innovations? - check your answers

Defining frugal innovation

The ten core competencies of frugal innovation

Defining disruptive innovation

Are these frugal innovations? Part II

What is a reverse innovation?

Test your knowledge on disruptive, frugal and reverse innovation

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIALISATION

Design thinking

Design thinking in healthcare: Interview with Matt Harrison

Challenges in design projects: Interview with Matt Harrison

The process of making an innovation available

Arbutus Drill going to market: Interview with Florin Gheorghe

Design Thinking

Arbutus Drill - who?s involved in the enterprise?

Test your knowledge on product development and commercialisation

GETTING AN INNOVATION INTO PRACTICE

Diffusion of innovations

Rogers' framework for the diffusion of innovation

Critiquing Rogers' framework

Test your knowledge on diffusion and scaling

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