Innovation and Implementation Support Tools can help you, as a researcher, identify relevant innovation and implementation risks and opportunities, as well as concrete activities to address these.
On this website, we offer 2 types of tools:
TRL / SRL stands for Technology and Societal Readiness Levels. These tools help to identify the status of your research or innovation based on commonly accepted milestones used for grant schemes.Bruno et al. 2020. Technology readiness revisited: a proposal for extending the scope of impact assessment of European public services: https://doi.org/10.1145/3428502.3428552
This tool helps to identify complexities in your research from an innovation and implementation perspective.Greenhalgh et al. 2020. The NASSS-CAT Tools for Understanding, Guiding, Monitoring, and Researching Technology Implementation Projects in Health and Social Care: Protocol for an Evaluation Study in Real-World Settings: https://doi.org/10.2196/16861
This toolkit offers a quick guide and templates for creating a patient journey map. This toolkit helps to identify and prioritise concrete activities to understand better the healthcare context from the perspective of patients/citizens.Micic, E.V. (2025). Developing a tool for patient journey mapping [Thesis]. University of Twente, Enschede. https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/107198
This toolkit provides a step-by-step guide to designing and carrying out effective stakeholder engagement activities for implementing health and social care innovations.Potthoff et al. 2024. The Implementation STakeholder Engagement Model (I-STEM) Toolkit. https://doi.org/10.25398/rd.northumbria.27248193.v1
Although Innovation and Implementation Support Tools can be an important first step in your research and innovation journey, these tools generally offer only initial awareness. As such, for guidance and/or strategic decisions, TechMed provides dedicated support services, including 1:1 expert consultations and multidisciplinary TechMed Roundtables for Health Tech Research.