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Study Finds No Publishing Bias Against Novel Research

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers analyzed peer-reviewed data from nearly 50 journals in the physical and life science fields and found that evaluators didn’t show any noticeable bias against novelty, as has long been the fear. The researchers focused their attention on later-stage selection, as this is when projects are typically complete.

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How Brigham & Women’s Funds Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Since 2013, we have tapped our front lines – our 1,500 physicians and thousands more nurses, PA’s, pharmacists and other clinicians – for ways to improve care and reduce costs, using an innovation incubator model that adapts venture capital investment approaches to find and scale the best ideas.