The emergence of radically new health care technologies: Inventive users as innovation networkers

Technology and Health Care

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 169-183

  Lettl, Christopher ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Health care technology; Innovation networks; Radical innovation; User innovation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; COMPETENCE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; HEALTH CARE; IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; TECHNOLOGY; X RAY;

EID: 23944489059     PISSN: 09287329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/thc-2005-13304     Document Type: Article

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