support innovation, Howard C. Dittrich, MD, who
wrote an editorial on the JAHA Special Report, contends that not every academic center is suitable for a
would-be clinician innovator and that, even for those
few institutions that are right for the role, “to believe
that the ecosystem can be created and flourish solely
within an academic center is folly,” he wrote. “Where
would one find the innovators, entrepreneurs, risktaking inv W7F