One Health

Piero Formica is an Italian writer and academic, and Winner of the Innovation Luminary Award under the aegis of the European Commission. Active in the field of the knowledge economy, Piero Formica is currently at the Innovation Value Institute, Maynooth University, Ireland.

In his new book, One Health, Piero Formica with his contributors, continues to be at the leading-edge of Knowledge Management in distilling the real-world wisdom for that which really serves our broader collective and sustainable needs.Our ultimate bottom-line is our wellbeing. The COVID pandemic has demonstrated that an effective healthcare solution is not simply about technology, but additionally a change in human relational behavior at both a community and global level. The looming existential challenges require fresh thinking and a new approach to education valuing the resources of imagination, intuition, and collaboration, over passive memorization and competitive achievements. Piero calls for a repurposing of multi-faceted technology and AI from satisfying the mindless consumption by the wealthy few to the sustainable health of all – including all other life forms and our planet.

• Chapter 1. Carving the Transformative Enterprise Profile; Piero FormicaChapter 2. Body and Mind. Reflections on knowledge and ignorance affecting health, wellbeing, the value of shared purposes and a relational society seeking to optimise digital technology; Alan BarrellChapter 3. Doing the right things: repurposing innovation to achieve sustainability; Fabio Maria MontagninoChapter 4. Innovating Innovation in Healthcare. How Covid has torn up the rule book; Peter RobbinsChapter 5. Healthcare innovation ecosystems as transformative enterprises improving the good health and well-being of citizens in Europe’s outermost regions; Oliver Schwabe and Nuno AlmeidaChapter 6. The transformative enterprise: World Health Innovation Summit (WHIS) platform for sustainable development; Gareth Presch