chain of an emerging new product and how they contribute to innovation. Further, user innovation success in the market is … studies in the healthcare sector have shown that healthcare professionals are an important source of innovation. Yet, to date …, companies and scholars have paid little attention to the end users of medical devices: patients. We focus on the innovative …

Prolonged hospital stays, or hospital stays that are longer than medically necessary, are a major concern for patients … hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and Mexico. We develop a continuum-of-care conceptual framework based on prior … that leads to more complex admissions; (ii) hospital inefficiency; and (iii) lack of rehabilitation, social, and long …

contributes to an economic exposition of China's potential transition from an energy-intensive to an innovation-led growth path … capital investment and incentives of capital stock accumulation rather than R&D-related innovation. Accumulation of energy …-consuming capital stock along this non-innovation-led growth path thus leads to an intensive use of fossil energy - an energy …

-country differences in the efficiency of foreign technology absorption and indigenous innovation lead to cross-country divergence in the … undertaking indigenous innovation tends to gain a higher level of energy productivity. …