Innovation is part idea generation and part development. We build a model of "innovating-by-doing," whereby ideas come to practitioners. Successful innovation requires that practitioners' ideas be developed through costly effort. Our model nests existing theories of laboratory research and...

"This book takes an innovative look at technology and engineering as they pertain to medicine (medical engineering), teaming them to facilitate new systems that have the ability to change the lifestyles and quality of life of people"--Provided by publisher.

This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007. We estimate a production function where life expectancy depends on health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and...

The allocation and rationing of health care resources is, no doubt, one of the most pressing issues confronting contemporary society. These issues¿considered from a micro and a macro level of economic analysis¿are linked inextricably to utilitarianism which, in turn, relies upon a cost-benefit...

Emerging paradigms furthering the reach of medical technology into human anatomy present unique modeling, control, and sensing problems. This review provides a brief history of medical robotics, leading to the current trend of minimally invasive intervention and diagnostics in confined spaces....