Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: The concept of open innovation has been discussed in academic literatures from various points of view in more than thirty-four fields.Those topics include strategy, product development, innovation process, toolkits/users, limits/risks/costs, university, environmental context and individual/group.Although previous literatures include various entities which interact with firms, universities, research institutions and users, the research focuses on the interactions between innovative entity and users.The research also explores how medical equipment manufactures collaborate with users to develop novel and competitive products.User collaboration itself is not a new idea on innovation and/or new product development studies, however, few literatures have elucidated the detailed process especially in the medical equipment industry.We interviewed a medical equipment manufacturer to find the existence of a facilitator who could match innovative entities for problem-solving.
Author: 京子 亀岡
Language: Japanese
Subfield: Computer Science Applications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3200137671