Institute For The Future

Open Health applies the principles of open innovation to the global health economy. It encourages the opening up of a firm’s boundaries, resulting in extraordinary collaboration both inside and outside the firm. Sources of innovation move from traditional in-house R&D units to a range of entrepreneurs, startups, academics, university labs, and independent scientists around the world. Open Health is a new business strategy for health companies that provides a framework for recasting business models and innovation systems, and for rethinking the boundaries of health itself.

The Open Health Map shows the larger context of forces driving open innovation in the global health economy.