Reports and studies

In this position paper, we have used Alan Cooper’s persona technique to illustrate the utility of audio- and video-based AAL technologies. Therefore, two primary examples of potential audio- and video-based AAL users, Anna and Irakli, serve as reference points for describing salient ethical, legal and social challenges related to use of AAL. These challenges are presented on three levels: individual, societal, and regulatory. For each challenge, a set of policy recommendations is suggested.

This Research Topic focuses on both strengths and weaknesses of social innovation, technological innovation, and health innovation that are increasingly recognized as crucial concepts related to the formulation of responses to the social, health, and environmental challenges. Goals of this Research Topic: (1) to identify and share the best recent practices and innovations related to social, environmental and health policies; (2) to debate on relevant governance modes, management tools as well as evaluation and impact assessment techniques; (3) to discuss dilemmas in the fields of management, financing, designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining the sustainability of innovative models of delivering social, health and care services; and (4) to recognize and analyze social, technological and health innovation that has emerged or has been scaled-up to respond to crisis situations, for example, a pandemic of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease.

One of the outcomes of the Horizon 2020 project Innovation Networks for Scaling Active and Healthy Ageing (IN-4-AHA) is an innovation scale-up model that is validated by stakeholders and complemented by implementation roadmap. You can find it now in Futurium Library and please check out also an online scale up model, a tool for innovators.

A report presenting a map of available private, public and blended investment sources (options) for entrepreneurs to finance the development and scale-up phases of their AHA businesses were identified, having in mind also product and technology readiness and company development stage. An evaluation of relative availability was also performed.