the extensive medical knowledge of patients and their relatives, particularly those with chronic diseases. The overall …, 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 …

the patients and relatives. Since technical knowledge was not present in most cases, knowledgable friends and relatives …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 …