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1) Health care in Canada is delivered through a publicly funded health care system, which is mostly free at the point of use and has most services provided by private entities. Health Canada, a federal department, publishes a series of surveys for the health care system in Canada based on Canadians' first-hand experiences of the health care system. Although life-threatening cases are dealt with immediately, some services needed are non-urgent and patients are seen at the next-available appointment in their local chosen facility.

-The median wait time in Canada to see a special physician is a little over four weeks with 89.5% waiting fewer than 90 days.

-The median wait time for diagnostic services such as MRI and CAT scans is two weeks with 86.4% waiting fewer than 90 days.

-The median wait time for surgery is four weeks with 82.2% waiting fewer than 90 days. Dr. Brian Day was once quoted as saying "This is a country in which dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week and in which humans can wait two-to-three years." Based on waiting line theory, what are your suggestions to improve the health care service in Canada?

2) Innovation plays an important role in pursuing an organization's long-term economic, environmental, and social goals. An individual innovator may encounter issues, such as regimes of appropriability and complementary assets. Due to uncertainty in the process, innovation may be failed, inefficient, and/or harmful to supply chain partnership. In an attempt to maximize the benefits from a supply chain perspective, channel collaboration in innovation has long been in order.

Would collaborative innovation bring systematic benefits to supply chain members as well as the whole supply chain and the society? What is the best feasible mechanism for collaborative innovation?