Golden opportunities for silver innovation: How demographic changes give rise to entrepreneurial opportunities to meet the needs of older people

Technovation

Volumn 39-40, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 73-82

  Kohlbacher, Florian ^a   Herstatt, Cornelius ^b   Levsen, Nils ^b  

^a German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo   (Japan)

^b HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging Demographic change; Innovation management; Older users; Opportunity exploitation; Opportunity identification; Opportunity recognition

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SILVER;

DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES; INNOVATION MANAGEMENT; OLDER USERS; OPPORTUNITY EXPLOITATION; OPPORTUNITY IDENTIFICATIONS; OPPORTUNITY RECOGNITION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84933670564     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2014.05.002     Document Type: Article

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