Innovative Milieu Diagnosis: The Case of the Healthcare System in Saint Petersburg

Abstract

The diagnosis of innovative milieu is the initial step in the creation or modification of the milieu, aimed at providing sufficient information for making management decisions. This paper contributes to theoretical and practical aspects of innovative milieu diagnosis. Innovative milieu is regarded as the subsystem of a territory or industry, composed of the specified actors’ properties. In contrast to those commonly applied, the diagnosis method proposed firstly enables the capacity of the milieu to create required and suitable whole system innovations to be evaluated, and secondly, it allows diagnosis of innovative milieu in the initial stage of its formation or even in the preconditions. The designed method is applied to the diagnosis of innovative milieu in the healthcare system of Saint Petersburg.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n4p20