Table 1.

Interviewee role description

Innovation Specialists (Specialist)	Main points of contact and facilitation of efforts across services lines. Receives training from iNET, and subsequently provides technical and grantsmanship support, engages leadership in innovation, supports and troubleshoots investee teams as ideas are tested, provides instruction and iNET program content delivery. Program content includes human centered design (HCD), lean methodology, pitching and storytelling
Leadership champions (Champion)	C-suite advocates for their site's participation in the program and who were involved to varying degrees in on-the-ground iNET activities
Investees (Investee)	VA employees who received training in relevant skills as well as funding of their innovation's development

Source(s): VA Innovation Ecosystem (n.d.)