This article examines the impact of partnership design on technological innovation in public-private innovation partnerships. It develops two competing hypotheses on how specific partnership characteristics lead to innovation in health care services. The study compares 19 eHealth partnerships across five European countries and uses fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to test the hypotheses. The findings show that small, centralized, and homogeneous partnerships are most successful at achieving technological innovation. The study highlights the importance of partnership design in spurring innovation and calls for a reconsideration of some of the underlying assumptions of collaborative innovation theory.

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设计跨部门合作以促进技术创新：来自五个国家电子医疗合作伙伴关系的经验见解

本文探讨了公私创新伙伴关系中伙伴关系设计对技术创新的影响。它就具体的伙伴关系特征如何导致医疗保健服务创新提出了两个相互竞争的假设。该研究比较了五个欧洲国家的 19 个电子医疗合作伙伴关系，并使用模糊集定性比较分析来检验假设。研究结果表明，小型、集中和同质的伙伴关系在实现技术创新方面最为成功。该研究强调了伙伴关系设计在刺激创新方面的重要性，并呼吁重新考虑协作创新理论的一些基本假设。