When patients become innovators
Patients are increasingly able to conceive and develop sophisticated medical devices and services to meet their own needs - often without any help from companies that produce or sell medical products. This “free” patient-driven innovation process enables them to benefit from important advances that...
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| author | DeMonaco, Harold Oliveira, Pedro Manuel Sousa Mendes Torrance, Andrew W von Hippel, Christiana von Hippel, Eric A |
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| description | Patients are increasingly able to conceive and develop sophisticated medical devices and services to meet their own needs - often without any help from companies that produce or sell medical products. This “free” patient-driven innovation process enables them to benefit from important advances that are not commercially available. Patient innovation also can provide benefits to companies that produce and sell medical devices and services. In this article, we look at two examples of free innovation in the medical field - one for managing type 1 diabetes and the other for managing Crohn’s disease. We will set these cases within the context of the broader free innovation movement that has been gaining momentum in an array of industries and apply the general lessons of free innovation to the specific circumstances of medical innovation by patients. Keywords: Free innovation; Medical innovation; Medical devices; User Innovation; Patient Innovation |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1238292022-09-27T20:04:03Z When patients become innovators DeMonaco, Harold Oliveira, Pedro Manuel Sousa Mendes Torrance, Andrew W von Hippel, Christiana von Hippel, Eric A Sloan School of Management Patients are increasingly able to conceive and develop sophisticated medical devices and services to meet their own needs - often without any help from companies that produce or sell medical products. This “free” patient-driven innovation process enables them to benefit from important advances that are not commercially available. Patient innovation also can provide benefits to companies that produce and sell medical devices and services. In this article, we look at two examples of free innovation in the medical field - one for managing type 1 diabetes and the other for managing Crohn’s disease. We will set these cases within the context of the broader free innovation movement that has been gaining momentum in an array of industries and apply the general lessons of free innovation to the specific circumstances of medical innovation by patients. Keywords: Free innovation; Medical innovation; Medical devices; User Innovation; Patient Innovation 2020-02-19T19:56:27Z 2020-02-19T19:56:27Z 2019-07 Book http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 9783658272401 9783658272418 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123829 Demonaco, Harold et al. "When Patients Become Innovators." Managing Innovation in a Global and Digital World, edited by R. Tiwari R. and S. Buse, Springer, 2019, 121-129 © 2019 Springer http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27241-8_9 Managing Innovation in a Global and Digital World Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ application/pdf Springer Prof. Von Hippel |
| spellingShingle | DeMonaco, Harold Oliveira, Pedro Manuel Sousa Mendes Torrance, Andrew W von Hippel, Christiana von Hippel, Eric A When patients become innovators |
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