and subsequently commercialized. We analyze cases of patients and their caregivers becoming user entrepreneurs - persons … their product to market. Our findings show that these innovation opportunities were mostly recognized during time … cases, the innovation had significant impacts on the quality of lives of the patients and, in case of caregivers, on both …

products, usually have more innovation intension than general users. However, little research depicts the entrepreneurship … motivations that drive innovators to become businesspeople. Hence, this study investigates Taiwanese entrepreneurs to fill this … entrepreneurial motivations into five categories: product knowledge advantage, industry expertise, inducements to innovation, career …