Reference number : GC-2017-Q4-00422, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Dambrowitz, Christopher (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Alberta, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : College & Community Social Innovation Fund, program name french : Programme d'innovation dans les collèges et la communauté - Fonds d'innovation sociale, program purpose english : The project seeks to improve on how innovative ideas are transformed into useful products in rehabilitative healthcare, leading to enhanced quality of life for Canadians with chronic conditions and those recovering from disabling injury. The project addresses a key challenge in the Alberta and Canadian healthcare systems, which is that few innovations successfully get to market. Canadian innovators face major challenges in getting their innovative ideas through the crucial phases of development, procurement, adoption and on to widespread use. This project takes the view that knowledge co-creation, public-private collaboration and use of innovation 'intermediaries' can improve how innovative ideas are transformed into useful products in rehabilitative healthcare. The project will focus on the early-stage or 'upstream' innovation process, where new ideas and concepts are developed through the efforts of post-secondary students, rehabilitation clinicians, health care_x000D_
providers and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) active in the healthcare sector. The project will deploy action research and participant observation methods to better understand how these different partners can work more effectively together, while identifying particular characteristics of the innovation process that influence successful outcomes. The project involves a partnership between the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), a leading Canadian polytechnic, and the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital (GRH), one of North America's largest rehabilitation hospitals. Collaborators on the project include the Glenrose Rehabilitation Research, Innovation and Technology hub (GRRIT), Clinisys, a leading healthcare SME,_x000D_
MEDEC, the national association representing Canada's innovative medical technology industry and Alberta Health Services (AHS)._x000D_, program purpose french : The project seeks to improve on how innovative ideas are transformed into useful products in rehabilitative healthcare, leading to enhanced quality of life for Canadians with chronic conditions and those recovering from disabling injury. The project addresses a key challenge in the Alberta and Canadian healthcare systems, which is that few innovations successfully get to market. Canadian innovators face major challenges in getting their innovative ideas through the crucial phases of development, procurement, adoption and on to widespread use. This project takes the view that knowledge co-creation, public-private collaboration and use of innovation 'intermediaries' can improve how innovative ideas are transformed into useful products in rehabilitative healthcare. The project will focus on the early-stage or 'upstream' innovation process, where new ideas and concepts are developed through the efforts of post-secondary students, rehabilitation clinicians, health care_x000D_
providers and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) active in the healthcare sector. The project will deploy action research and participant observation methods to better understand how these different partners can work more effectively together, while identifying particular characteristics of the innovation process that influence successful outcomes. The project involves a partnership between the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), a leading Canadian polytechnic, and the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital (GRH), one of North America's largest rehabilitation hospitals. Collaborators on the project include the Glenrose Rehabilitation Research, Innovation and Technology hub (GRRIT), Clinisys, a leading healthcare SME,_x000D_
MEDEC, the national association representing Canada's innovative medical technology industry and Alberta Health Services (AHS)._x000D_, agreement title english : Improving the Early-stage Innovation Process in Rehabilitative Healthcare, agreement title french : Improving the Early-stage Innovation Process in Rehabilitative Healthcare, agreement number : CCSIF, agreement value : 239553.0, agreement start date : 2018-03-31, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2019-2020)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2019-2020)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada