Why Don’t Innovations Make It? 

For innovators in health and human services, there is a rough road to walk to find market adoption and financial success. There are thousands (maybe millions) of pilot projects and demonstration grants testing new innovations —but very little change seems to occur in the service delivery system. This has created the much discussed (but never changed) 17-year “science to service” lag in health care—meaning that, on average, it takes almost two decades for innovations in health care to become mainstream best practices (see;The Answer Is 17 Years, What Is The Question: Understanding Time Lags In Translational . . .