title: Adoption Space and the Idea-to-Market Process of Health Technologies.
abstract: Although Europe 'produces' excellent science, it has not been equally successful in translating scientific results into commercially successful companies in spite of European and national efforts invested in supporting the translation process. The Idea-to-Market process is highly complex due to the large number of actors and stakeholders. ITECH was launched to propose recommendations which would accelerate the Idea-to-Market process of health technologies leading to improvements in the competitiveness of the European health technology industry in the global markets. The project went through the following steps: defining the Idea-to-Market process model; collection and analysis of funding opportunities; identification of 12 gaps and barriers in the Idea-to-Market process; a detailed analysis of these supported by interviews; a prioritization process to select the most important issues; construction of roadmaps for the prioritized issues; and finally generating recommendations and associated action plans. Seven issues were classified as in need of actions. Three of these are part of the ongoing Medical Device Directive Reform (MDR), namely health technology assessment, post-market surveillance and regulatory process, and therefore not within the scope of ITECH. Recommendations were made for eHealth taxonomy; Education and training; Clinical trials and Adoption space and Human Factors Engineering (HFE).
authors.affiliation: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tampere, Finland.
authors.forename: Niilo
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Saranummi
authors.affiliation: INSERM, Lille, France.
authors.forename: Regis
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Beuscart
authors.affiliation: Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
authors.forename: Norman
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Black
authors.affiliation: Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: Nicos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maglaveras
authors.affiliation: INSERM, Lille, France.
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Strano
authors.affiliation: Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: Youla
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Karavidopoulou
mesh_terms: D020811:Biomedical Technology / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D006804:Ergonomics; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D040541:Marketing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017216:Telemedicine; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical