Abstract

With its concept of linking theoretical claim with practical relevance in high-quality contributions Die Unternehmung counts as one of the leading German journals in the field of Business Administration. It covers all core subjects of business administration (e.g. marketing, accounting/controlling, organisation and corporate governance) as well as includes more recent fields such as technology and innovation management, logistics, and supply chain management. Die Unternehmung disseminates new academic insights, spotlights interesting problems from practice, presents academically profound solutions for practice, and generally encourages an exchange between science and practice. Website: www.unternehmung.nomos.de

Highlights

  • Health care is a sector of critical importance for the economy and the society at large

  • We draw upon and complement previous work of Oliveira et al (2011), Oliveira (2012) and Shcherbatiuk/Oliveira (2012) that found that patients and family members display innovative capabilities and have developed a significant number of TT&MD for themselves

  • We draw on path creation theory (Garud/Karnøe 2001) for analyzing a number of new therapies and medical devices developed by patients, including the case of electronic trousers that help paraplegics to stand and walk; the injection port, a medical device for diabetes patients who need daily injections, and the shower shirt, to protect mastectomy patients from post-surgical infection, among other

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Introduction

Health care is a sector of critical importance for the economy and the society at large. Health spending reached on average 9.5% of GDP of OECD1 members in 2009. Total health care expenditures around the world are difficult to determine, but $5.7 trillion would be a fair estimate for 2011. That would place health care at about 8.7% of global. Das Erstellen und Weitergeben von Kopien dieses PDFs ist nicht zulässig

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