WIR!2 alliance com(m) 2020 – Municipal innovations for health care in rural areas: Sub-project “NFAP – Developing skilled workers by ensuring succession in medical practices in rural areas” (January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022)
The vision of the com(m) 2020 alliance is to combine the strengths of society, science, the health industry and health care in Lusatia to jointly ensure sustainable municipal health care in the region. Technological, social and organizational innovations help us to close current gaps in care in the region and strengthen science and the health industry as value-adding sectors in the upcoming structural change. The aim of this sub-project in the implementation phase that is now beginning is a nuanced further development of the alliance strategy, with a focus on linking innovation systems that have so far been little connected to the Lusatian health industry and science. Specifically, the sub-project involves examining the applicability of findings already developed in science and research, as well as policy measures already in use to promote corporate succession in the area of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to the issue of succession in medical practices in rural areas. In this context, on the one hand, there is a transfer of knowledge from science and practice to SMEs in the research and practice of health economics, as well as a stronger problematization of the specifics of practice succession in the field of established research on company succession. On the other hand, a stronger networking of research and practice in the field of SMEs with the field of health economics should increase the basis for organizational and process-related innovations in the health sector, particularly with regard to the development of skilled workers. In the sub-project, selected regional stakeholders in the health economy will therefore also be linked with regional and national stakeholders in the promotion of SMEs. If there are measures in the context of SME succession that have not yet been sufficiently considered in the context of practical succession, then this innovation potential will be documented and made easily accessible to regional stakeholders, and the diffusion of this knowledge will be actively supported.
Cooperation partners: Thiem-Research GmbH (TRS, project coordinator)