I have received a few grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to develop and evaluate innovative health care practices. Of course, that creates work for the research assistants who do the evaluation of these new technologies, but it also enables us to form unusual health care teams, in terms of computer science and media. On my research teams, there are a lot of people who work in computer science and media. Developing these innovative health care practices creates jobs on an ad hoc basis.
I don't know whether that answers your question.