The purpose of this qualitative descriptive design study was to explore how hospital middle managers (HMMs) described the innovation implementation experiences that influenced their innovation ...implementation in Long Island, New York. The consolidated framework for implementation research (CFIR) guided this study and shaped the overarching research question: how do HMMs describe their innovation implementation experiences that influence their innovation implementation outcomes? The fourth domain of CFIR guided three additional sub-RQs. Purposeful and snowball sampling were used to select 15 HMMs that participated in one-to-one interviews. Nine of the same 15 HMMs partook in two focus groups. Thematic analysis was used to identify and interpret deductive and inductive patterns found in the data. Data analysis generated twelve themes, nine were facilitators of innovation implementation and remaining three were barriers. Study results found participants desired continuous feedback and leadership development; this fostered enhanced affective commitment and mindset which helped guide more successful innovation implementations. Therefore, healthcare organizations need to develop strategies to incorporate HMM in the planning and execution of future innovation implementations.
The authors organized the workshop “Accelerating Climate-Mitigating Technology Development and Deployment”, bringing together experts in energy innovation, investment, modeling, and policy. Together, ...they developed a research agenda for bridging granular private investment data and energy systems models to inform climate and innovation policy (https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/21828). The authors are based at the University of Maryland (UMD) Center for Global Sustainability (CGS) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), with expertise in energy and climate policy, innovation and technological change, and macro energy systems and integrated assessment modeling.
Surana is a Senior Fellow at CGS, Associate Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna and an investor in start-ups at IST cube. Edwards is an Assistant Professor at UW-Madison. Kennedy is a Postdoctoral Associate at CGS. Borrero is a graduate student at UMD. Clarke is the Director of Decarbonization Pathways at the Bezos Earth Fund and Senior Fellow at CGS. Fedorchak is a former undergraduate student at UW-Madison. Hultman is the Director at CGS, Professor at UMD, and was recently Senior Advisor for the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate at the US Department of State. McJeon is an Associate Research Scholar at CGS and an Earth Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Thomas is a graduate student at UW-Madison. Williams is the Director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, a Distinguished University Professor at UMD, and the former Director of ARPA-E.
Corporations are increasingly investing in climate-tech start-ups that could rapidly bring innovative technologies to market. Corporate resources and experience can provide critical support for growing start-ups. But these resources could make corporations particularly influential in shaping the technologies that scale, raising questions about potential disconnects between corporate strategic interests and societal goals. Research on corporate investors is essential for climate policy to better anticipate technological change, incentivize long-term climate solutions, fill investment gaps, and mobilize additional finance to benefit society.
