Fostering an innovation ecosystem for a public digital health platform

Summary, in English

This short paper explores building innovation platforms in the public sector, particularly in public healthcare, through an ecological lens. While existing research has mainly focused on the platform owner's role in orchestrating innovation, this study investigates the strategies used by public organizations and widens the net to analyse how a digital health platform’s complementing actors contribute towards innovation within the ecosystem. The paper further highlights the fundamental difference in market logic between public and private platforms. Using the case study of Helseplattformen, a public digital health platform in central Norway, the study aims to identify platform establishment strategies and ecosystem actor interactions that contribute to innovation emergence. The study contributes both theoretically and practically to digital platforms literature and provides guidance for decision-makers and project managers in the public sector who want to adopt or manage similar digital health platforms.

• Author: Betty Saenyi
• Department/s: Department of Informatics
• Publishing year: 2023
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: ICIS 2023 Proceedings. 4 : Digital Innovation, Transformation, and Entrepreneurship
• Links: https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2023/diginnoventren/diginnoventren/4/
• Document type: Conference paper
• Publisher: AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
• Topic: Information Systems, Social aspects
• Keywords: Digital innovation; Digital health platforms; Digital platforms; Ecosystems
• Conference name: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2023)
• Conference date: 2023-12-10 - 2023-12-13
• Conference place: Hyderabad, India
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISBN: 978-1-958200-07-0