2019
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3461916
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User Entrepreneurs for Social Innovation: The Case of Patients and Caregivers as Developers of Tangible Medical Devices

Abstract: Prior research has shown that some patients and caregivers such as relatives are innovating in relation to their unmet medical needs. However, there is little evidence whether and how these ideas are later implemented into market-ready solutions and subsequently commercialized. We analyze cases of patients and their caregivers becoming user entrepreneurs-persons who develop and market medical devices according to their own and/or their relatives' needs. We apply the framework of opportunity recognition and exp… Show more

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