The CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation (CIJ) is targeted at communicating thought-provoking, contemporary, and latest findings in experimentation-driven innovation research.
CIJ is an interdisciplinary, open on-line journal that publishes both empirical and theoretical research that aims to push the boundaries of a variety of topics around in-situ experimental innovation. CIJ encourages research that is between and even beyond disciplinary lines, and welcomes research advancing innovation process methodologies, tools, educational approaches, knowledge exchange, management, and policy. The intent of CIJ is to be intellectually challenging in the name of true scientific curiosity and to cultivate evidence-based, novel insights to advance understanding on how new knowledge and basic research turn into use for society through innovation.
Guest Editors:
Bettina Maisch, HM Munich University for Applied Sciences and Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship, Germany
Pieter Vandekerckhove, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Steven Howard, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States of America
Louis J. Koizia, Imperial College and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, St. Mary's Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Benjamin H.L Harris University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Luc de Witte, The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Christian Hanshans, HM Munich University for Applied Sciences, University Hospital Würzburg, Germany
In the scientific spirit of CERN, this Special Issue focuses on one of the most urgent and transformative experiments in human history: Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The global healthcare and well-being sector is facing unprecedented challenges with increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and workforce crises. Digital health investments reached a record in 2022, reflecting the urgent need for scalable, technology-driven solutions. Yet, these investments are not sufficiently creating value in the healthcare systems for key stakeholders like patients and care professionals. We need a healthcare innovation renaissance. How can we transition to more effective healthcare innovation to ensure equitable, sustainable, and impactful healthcare solutions for the future?
We need to learn from bold, experimental and disruptive approaches in this highly multidisciplinary field. We counter increasing economic and political pressures favoring siloed and disciplinary research. The purpose of this special issue is to be a safe harbor, where research that bridges different fields and disciplines can flourish.
We are pleased to announce that Matteo Vignoli, currently co-editor of the CERN IdeaSquare
Journal of Experimental Innovation (CIJ), has accepted to take up the role of Editor in Chief of the
Journal as of June 1 st , 2023.
