This open access book examines how the Covid-19 pandemic exposed structural tensions in innovation systems and capitalist models in the global economy, with a particular focus on Asian healthcare systems. Co-edited by DIJ Visiting Research Fellow Sébastien Lechevalier, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Kathryn Ibata-Arens, and Kayo Takuma, Capitalism, Innovations, and Health after Covid-19. An Asian Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan 2026) contributes to debates on post-pandemic capitalism, technological development, and global healthcare management. The book interrogates systemic crises in capitalism and innovation; analyzes Covid-19 responses as a critical moment for rethinking health governance; and presents Asian experiences that challenge dominant models. Chapters draw on comparative political economy, science and technology studies (STS), and health policy to illuminate how Asia’s diverse trajectories offer lessons for more inclusive and sustainable innovation. Sébastien Lechevalier contributed the chapter “Care-led Innovation. A New Paradigm and an Application in the Japanese Context of Society 5.0”