From innovation to intrapreneurship: The new strategy of public hospital to promote medical technology transfer / 中华医学科研管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To analyze the practice of technology transfer and innovation in public hospitals base on intrapreneurship perspective, explain the foundation of intrapreneurship and put forward the frame for measuring the intrapreneurship practice.Methods:Induction method was introduced to summarize the bottleneck in technology transfer and innovation and the basis of intrapreneurship in public hospitals. Documentary study was introduced to summarize the definition of intrapreneurship in public hospitals context, the difference among related definitions were compared and a frame for measurement was preliminarily established.Results:The Constraints for public hospitals in technology transfer and innovation are the restriction from patents and papers to primary products and the restriction in hospital management. Thereupon, traditional innovation theory couldn not explain the future development of public hospitals. The evolution from innovation to intrapreneurship is deeply needed. Extended services, development of technology, upgrade of process and organized research could be employed to measure the intrapreneurship of public hospitals.Conclusions:As active innovators, not passive recipient, physicians can utilize resources of hospitals to minimize risk of innovation to enhance capability against inner and outer change. Intrapreneurship can be employed to explain this kind of practice. Innovation is based on creation of knowledge and technology, Intrapreneurship on the other hand is featured creating value for organization and personnel. Intrapreneurship is different from innovation theoretically. The research on intrapreneurship would enrich the understanding of high-quality development of public hospital. Intrapreneurship is the evolution of public hospitals in the chain of technology transfer.