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Community Innovation

​Community Innovation is a unique form of social innovation that is context-specific within the geography of a community.

​Scope
  • Innovation process must involve the community

  • Results should be applicable to the community

Roles & Capabilities
  • Plan, implement, and sustain innovation ideas with partners

  • Share best practices and failures, and contribute to learning culture in SGH & the community

Collaborators & Partners
  • ​Government agencies, Institutes of Higher Learning, Voluntary Welfare Organisations (VWOs), Community Care Partners, Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs), Corporate/Private Entities

Value Proposition

  • ​Access to problem statements, patients, healthcare professionals, academic medical centre

  • Linkages to partners in the community

Relationships & Engagement

  • Plan, implement, and sustain innovation ideas with partners

  • Share best practices and failures, and contribute to learning culture in SGH & the community

Context-Specific

  • Requires deep understanding of the unique characteristics of the community

  • Solutions proven effective in one community can at best serve as an inspiration for another community