How to create a development route
Plan your development
To improve care for patients with cancer, innovation with proven benefits should be implemented in daily practice on large scale. However, these innovations do not automatically find their way to pracitce.
The path from an idea to an innovation in daily practice consists of several steps, with different stakeholders and influencing factors (barriers & facilitators). This makes every development path unique and complex. Early insight into this route, stakeholders and other influencing factors will increase the chance of successful implementation.
Tips on how to create your development route
Know your endpoint
What are you developing? Who will use your innovation? Which patient group(s)? For example; a diagnostic test to stratify patients with cancer type X for treatment Y, or a tool/method to support patients with problem X, or a novel/improved therapy for cancer type X.
Define your endpoint, keep it in mind and work towards.Create the path towards your endpoint
What is your current research phase? And what is the next phase?
/ Basic research
/ Credentialing
/ Creation of modality
/ Preclinical research
/ Clinical research
/ Implementation (research)
Define your current and next phase (LINK)Barriers and facilitators
Which barriers and facilitators play a role in your development path?
Think of barriers and facilitors related to the following categories:
/ Innovation (LINK applicability)
/ Stakeholders (LINK stakeholders)
/ Organisation structure and culture
/ Laws and regulations
/ Structural funding
Look forward: on which barriers and facilitators in the next step do you need to anticipate?Responsibility
Will you (and your team) be performing the next step, after the current project has finished succesfully?
If yes, do you have the expertise to do so, or which actions are needed to aquire this?
If not, who will be the envisioned party to follow up on the results? Are you already in contact with a (potential) party with the expertise and enthusiasm to follow up on your results?
Who's going to execute the next step? If it's not you, then who?
