@inproceedings{32c8ace7682a4cebbdcbc4db7b866ed2,
title = "Delivering beneficial impacts in assistive technology: Improving government's approach to innovation",
abstract = "Society typically relies on the industrial sector to supply product and service innovations through the free market system. In some areas of free market failure deemed important to society-such as Assistive Technology-governments intervene by applying alternative innovation systems. This paper contends that governments consistently and inappropriately support an exploratory grant approach led by academia which generates knowledge in conceptual and prototype states, and instead should shift to a procurement contract approach led by industry which designs, tests and deploys commercial products and services.",
keywords = "Academia, Assistive Technology, Exploratory grant, Government, Industry, Innovation, Invention, Market failure, Policy, Practice, Procurement contract, Science, technology",
author = "Lane, \{Joseph P.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 The authors and IOS Press. All rights reserved.; 13th European Conference on the Advancement of Assistive Technology, AAATE 2015 ; Conference date: 09-09-2015 Through 12-09-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.3233/978-1-61499-566-1-78",
language = "English",
series = "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics",
publisher = "IOS Press",
pages = "78--83",
editor = "Cecilia Sik-Lanyi and Peter Cudd and Klaus Miesenberger and Evert-Jan Hoogerwerf",
booktitle = "Assistive Technology",
}