Research collaborations on medical innovation and entrepreneurship

Three characteristics of medical innovation – complex demand; collaborative and diverse knowledge domains; and impact of government regulations and institutions - represent core areas where papers have been presented at previous WOMI workshops.

“At WOMI2025, we are expanding the discourse, and careful scholarship of relevant topics. New aspects are also presented here, to analyze and explain what is changing in medical innovation and entrepreneurship”, says Maureen McKelvey, Director of Gothenburg U-GOT KIES centre.

Papers and debates also address platform technologies like AI, social dimensions like responsible research and innovation, as well as core topics like business knowledge networks; implementation, data and healthcare; and knowledge field developments.

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Eleven papers at WOMI2025 by researchers associated with UGOT KIES

Magnus Holmén (University of Halmstad), Oscar Llopis (University of Valencia), Maureen McKelvey (University of Gothenburg), Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas (Grenoble Ecole de Management, France), Rögnvaldur Saemundsson (University of Iceland), Johannes Tröndle (University of Gothenburg), and Bastian Rake (University of Gothenburg), presented eleven papers at WOMI2025.

1. Cross-border virtual R&D center: The case of AstraZeneca's collaboration with French
2. Academia through intermediary organization
3. Where does innovation come from: organizational routines vs. individual's skills?
4. Stakeholder collaboration on data quality management in the development of AI-
5. Driven Clinical Decision Support systems
6. Paradox Deferral in Medtech Regulation
7. Shadow-AI in healthcare
8. The co-evolution of medical and engineering knowledge: A data-drive approach to collaborative research
9. projects in the context of advanced graduate education in engineering and medicine in
10. Gothenburg 1948-2022
11. Impact of drug approval on follow-on research

Three core and defining characteristics for medical innovation

Medical innovation is a complex to develop, and diffuse, due to three core and defining characteristics found in “Rethinking Medical Innovation: Organizing R&D, responding to crisis, delivering health services”, by Bastian Rake, Magnus Gulbrandsen, Maureen McKelvey & Fiona A. Miller. Rake et al (2025) define the characteristics of medical innovation as:

• The complex relationship between medical innovation and both demand and need
• The critical importance of various forms of scientific knowledge and of collaboration
• The prominent role of government and regulations in affecting relationships.

Connectivity as a core value

A key aim of the Gothenburg U-GOT KIES centre is to facilitate and support cross-university collaboration, in our areas of expertise. 

“We have put much effort into developing and maintaining international collaborations, with relevant partners. Such national and international collaboration directly supports excellence research, advanced methodological knowledge, and supervision to guide Masters and especially PhD students. That is why connectivity and collaboration are core pillar in the loose and open organization of the centre”, says Maureen McKelvey.

Promoting collaboration and excellence is the main reason why U-GOT KIES always co-organizes the annual WOMI workshop, together with local organizers, this year Oscar Llopis (Universitat de València), Inma Aleixos Borrás and Pablo D'Este (INGENIO (CSIC-UPV).