Stanford Global Health Innovation Insight Series
To understand innovation in a global health context, we conducted interviews with aspiring and experienced global health innovators. Through these discussions, we identified six steps in the innovation process that consistently create roadblocks for innovators, yet are crucial to the success of a global health project. These forty eight case studies tell the stories of these global health innovation pioneers with specific insights keyed to the six steps in the innovation process.
These six challenge area are:
1. Identifying and validating needs
2. Understanding market/stakholder dynamics
3. Getting to a market-ready product/service
4. Sales, marketing, and distribution
5. Defining a viable business model
6. Securing adequate funding
Read background introductions, editorial credits, and acknowledgements and download illustrated case study PDFs at: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/centers-initiatives/csi/teaching-curriculum/global-health-innovation
All case studies designed and produced by Jean Zambelli
This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health grant 1 RC4 TW008781-01
Editorial content produced by participants in the CIDEA (Consortium for innovation design, evaluation, action)
Led by the Stanford Graduate School of Business