Knowledge Transfer in Health Communities: Open Innovation perspective

This paper aims to investigate and understand existing knowledge and paradigm of community issues to shift towards new knowledge management models, where open innovation could improve communities' health with rightly managed to validate knowledge creation and integration. The article is conceptual in nature and adopts a systematic literature review approach, based on the concepts of knowledge management and open innovation in the healthcare sector. It analyses the most relevant studies. The paper's contribution consists of how it connects open innovation in healthcare to knowledge management. The aim is to build a conceptual framework defining the main objectives of the article: (1) knowledge transfer and co-creation both inside and between health communities; (2) valid knowledge transfer through open innovation. So this paper aims to identify main definitions, concepts, and background theories. The analysis showed that 66 articles (22 in PubMed and 44 in Web of Science) are related to the topics of knowledge management and health ecosystems; open innovation and health; knowledge co-creation and community; knowledge transfer and open innovation, during the past ten years period (2011-2020). All articles were analysed in detail and divided to categories. This paper aims to investigate and understand existing knowledge and paradigm of community issues to shift towards new knowledge management models, where open innovation could improve health communities to validate knowledge co-creation and integration. This study proposes knowledge management approach and managerial paradigm shift from ecosystems to health communities. Identified the main articles and definitions in the field of knowledge transfer and health communities, proposed perspective of open innovation