MakeToCare2 continues the research begun with the previous report entitled MakeToCare. An ecosystem of actors and user-centred solutions for innovation in healthcare (2017), which proposed an exploratory path aimed at outlining the development guidelines for a scenario, that of contemporary healthcare mixed with the culture of making, undergoing rapid and profound transformation.
This second study ideally continues the reflections begun in the previous one, exploring certain themes in greater depth, in particular investigating the entrepreneurial dimension of innovation.
The Report is ideally structured in three parts:
1. A collection of external contributions from academics, researchers, key figures and experts who were invited to reflect on the different dimensions of innovation in healthcare in order to outline a reference framework within which to structure our research. This gave rise to a multi-voiced reflection, with a series of considerations regarding the importance of researchers in guiding and charting new paths of development, the critical issues but also the great potential of initiatives launched by patients and their associations, and the major challenges that the digital revolution poses for the world of healthcare.
2. An in-depth analysis of the MakeToCare Ecosystem and its connections with the phenomenon of patient innovation; the Ecosystem has been investigated and expanded to include new systems of entities outside its main areas but strongly connected to it. This set has been defined as the Enabling System and divided into three subsystems (Regulative Institutions System, Support & Development System and Promotion & Communication System), each of which identifies a specific area of intervention in support of the Ecosystem that guided the project selection process. The mapping previously initiated has been integrated and now presents a total of 150 innovative solutions in the healthcare sector, whose data has been reprocessed and presented in aggregate form through infographic maps.
3. An analysis and visualisation of what we have defined as the MakeToCare Ladder, the analysis model developed to summarise the process of developing healthcare solutions. Within this framework, four main phases have been identified, corresponding to the stages of conception, business development, regulatory verification and distribution to the end user. Through the MTC Ladder, it was also possible to read the eight new case studies, the analysis of which highlighted the differences and characteristics of the various development paths taken by those who develop innovation in the healthcare sector.
Maffei, S., Bianchini, M., Parini, B., Cipriani, L. (2019). MakeToCare2. La patient innovation in Italia tra progetto e mercato. Libraccio Editore, Milano
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