, companies and scholars have paid little attention to the end users of medical devices: patients. We focus on the innovative … behavior of patients and their relatives, their motivations, and their contributions to improving the quality of their own and … ultimately of other patients' therapy. We analyze innovations of producers, healthcare professionals, patients, and relatives in …

Prior research has shown that some patients and caregivers such as relatives are innovating in relation to their unmet … and subsequently commercialized. We analyze cases of patients and their caregivers becoming user entrepreneurs - persons … cases, the innovation had significant impacts on the quality of lives of the patients and, in case of caregivers, on both …