Users' search mechanisms and risks of inappropriateness in healthcare innovations: The role of literacy and trust in professional contexts

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 120, Issue , 2017, Pages 240-251

  Radaelli, Giovanni ^a   Lettieri, Emanuele ^b   Frattini, Federico ^b   Luzzini, Davide ^c   Boaretto, Andrea ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c MIT Zaragoza International Logistics Program   (Spain)

^d LECO Italy Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Healthcare; Knowledge search; Literacy; Professionals; Trust; Users

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

KNOWLEDGE SEARCH; LITERACY; PROFESSIONALS; TRUST; USERS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 85009433351     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.12.015     Document Type: Article

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