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As mentioned in chapter 1, eleven case analyses have been carried out as part of this study. The cases are geographically dispersed across the Nordic region; including cases from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland (see Figure 4.1).

Figure 4.1. Geographic location of analysed PPI cases

In Table 4.1 below, a short description is given of each of the analysed cases (full length descriptions are available in the case collection in Appendix 1).

Table 4.1 Presentation of PPI cases

Phoniro Lock (Sweden)

The project concerns the development of a new digital key system for the homecare service providers in Halmstad. The solution has led to a significant reduction in transport time for the healthcare workers.

Mobipen (Sweden)

Mobipen is a digital pen carried by homecare staff. It creates reliable data on homecare routines, allowing the service provider in the Municipality of Solna to alter the services according to the needs of the citizens.

Safe at Home (Tryggt Kvarboende) (Sweden)

The project concerns the development of different technologies integrated in the homes of senior citizens. The technologies include TV and computer solutions enabling the citizen to interact and get information about the homecare service, including the selection of food, etc.

Akribe A/S (Norway)

The project concerns the development and test of a database with practical procedures for nurses. The database documents and ensures the quality of nursing procedures and contains all basic procedures as well as extensive research-based theory.

DiaGenic (Norway)

DiaGenic’s patented method is based on identifying disease-specific gene expression signatures from easily available sample material such as blood. Through funding from Innovasjon Norge and collaboration with Ullevål University Hospital, DiaGenic has managed to develop a diagnostic test for breast cancer.

Communication, hearing and notification aid (Norway)

The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration is planning to conduct a new procurement of communication, hearing and alerting aids. The project is a pilot for a programme that NHO (the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprises) and KS (the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities) have started up. This 5-year programme is a public-private innovation partnership con- cerning supplier development.

The Digital School (Denmark)

The aim of the project is to utilise private sector expertise to develop new digital solutions to relieve primary and secondary school teachers of administrative and communicative burdens, providing sufficient time for their core task of teaching.

The Intelligent Shirt (Denmark)

The Intelligent Shirt project concerns the development of a smart electronic textile with the purpose of preventing physical wearing-down of workers in the homecare sector. The aim of the project is to reduce the amount of sick days and work-related injuries among eldercare workers.

The Culinary Food Project (Denmark)

The aim of the project is to develop new prototypes for improved hospital food products, helping patients recover faster from operations and diseases, while increasing patient satisfaction with the hospital food.

Mobile Health (Finland)

The mobile health project has developed and tested a service which captures personal information on exercise habits via mobile phones, and provides feedback on progress and achievements, also via the phone. It serves as a personal trainer and a motivational factor for exercising.

The Home Markets Project (Finland)

The project has developed an internet-based service model which can combine services provided by the municipality and private technology providers. The core of the project is the development of an electronic platform, where private and public partners can interact.

The cases analysed vary on a number of parameters. There is geographical variation, variation in the welfare sector represented, variation in size, varia- tion in type of cooperation and variation in the maturity of the project, i.e. which project phase a project is in at the present point in time (please see Table 4.2 for an overview of the variations in the cases analysed).

Table 4.2 Cases according to selected case parameters

Project title Welfare sector Type of innovation

Total project size (EUR)

Project phase

Phoniro Lock Elderly and disabled

Product i nnovation

100,000 Completed/ commercialisation

Mobipen Elderly and

disabled

Product innovation

300,000 Completed/ commercialisation Safe at Home Elderly and

disabled

Product innovation

150,000 Completed/ commercialisation Akribe A/S Education Process

innovation

1,000,000 Completed/ commercialisation

DiaGenic Prevention Product

innovation

6,000,000 Completed/ commercialisation Communication, hearing

and notification aid

Treatment and rehabilitation Process (systemic) innovation - Ongoing/pre- specification stage The Digital School Education/children

and young people

Product innovation

170,000 Ongoing The Intelligent Shirt Prevention Product

innovation

300,000 Ongoing The Culinary Food

project

Prevention Product and process

innovation

604,000 Completed Mobile Health (Healthy

Borough Helsinki)

Prevention Product and process

innovation

- Completed, com- mercial options are now considered Home Markets Project Elderly and

disabled Process innovation - Completed and integrated as an ongoing public service

The cases analysed have one important thing in common. They are all ex- amples of successful public-private innovation partnerships that concern the development of innovative products or projects or processes with the overall potential to improve the welfare services provided by the welfare state.