Knowledge dialogues for better health: complementarities between health innovation studies and health disciplines

Footnotes

1. Globelics is a worldwide community of scholars working on innovation and competence building in the context of economic development (www.globelics.org).

2. Physical technologies are the set of material resources necessary for the generation of a product or service. In drug development, physical technologies would be the active components present in medicine. Social technologies consist of forms of human organization necessary for the production process, labour division, assignment of responsibilities and even the way in which the products or services will be used.

3. The knowledge transfer tradition has offered a linear vision in which the Academy was responsible of producing knowledge that firms should incorporate into their productive processes. Nevertheless, the concept has evolved, opening the door for transfer activities among different actors and in multiple directions (Casas, 2005).