, 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 …

Focus and Scope of this Thesis -- Introduction -- Conceptual Foundations: The Phenomenon of Patients and Caregivers as … User Innovators -- Are Patients and Caregivers the Better Innovators? The Case of Medical Smartphone Applications …Moritz Göldner analyzes the unexplored phenomenon of patients and caregivers as innovators with respect to their own …