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Prevalence and risk factors for chronic oedema in U.K. community nursing services (2019)
Journal Article

© Christine J. Moffatt et al. 2019; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2019. Background and Study Design: Chronic edema (CO) is believed to be a major clinical problem within community nursing services in the United Kingdom. This study was undertake... Read More about Prevalence and risk factors for chronic oedema in U.K. community nursing services.

"Breaking the Mirror": Interface Innovation and Market Capture by Japanese Professional Camera Firms, 1955-1974 (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Associazione ICC. All rights reserved. Improving an interface to increase control over interactions between existing product modules can create new product features which al... Read More about "Breaking the Mirror": Interface Innovation and Market Capture by Japanese Professional Camera Firms, 1955-1974.

Understanding social innovation in services industries (2018)
Journal Article

This paper puts forward a framework for understanding the relationship between service industries and social innovation. These are two, previously disconnected research areas. The paper explores ways in which innovation in services is increasingly be... Read More about Understanding social innovation in services industries.

The importance of ergonomic design in product innovation: lessons from the development of the portable computer (2017)
Journal Article

The article addresses the role of ergonomic design in product innovation. Designers meet users’ needs by developing solutions to complex trade-offs—reverse salients—between a product’s characteristics. The fundamental ergonomic design challenge in po... Read More about The importance of ergonomic design in product innovation: lessons from the development of the portable computer.

Co-creation of social innovations and new professional institutions: diffusion of therapeutic patient education (TPE) for diabetes in Austria (2017)
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Patient-centred education in diabetes is a radical social innovation that alters the social and medical relationship between patients and medics. This paper discusses the ways in which institutional work conducted by national and international profes... Read More about Co-creation of social innovations and new professional institutions: diffusion of therapeutic patient education (TPE) for diabetes in Austria.

The co-creation of multi-agent social innovations: a bridge between service and social innovation research (2016)
Journal Article

Purpose: The research fields of service innovation and social innovation have, until now, been largely disconnected. At the most basic level, a great many social innovations are services, often public sector services with social entrepreneurs organiz... Read More about The co-creation of multi-agent social innovations: a bridge between service and social innovation research.

The impact of patient-centred versus didactic education programmes in chronic patients by severity: the case of type 2 diabetes mellitus (2016)
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Background: Education leads to better health-related decisions and protective behaviors, being especially important for patients with chronic conditions. Self-management education programs have been shown to be beneficial for patients with different... Read More about The impact of patient-centred versus didactic education programmes in chronic patients by severity: the case of type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Open innovation in services: knowledge sources, intellectual property rights and internationalisation (2014)
Journal Article

The paper investigates the direction of knowledge flows and, more generally, the pattern of open innovation that is taking place within services across Europe. Using the Eurostat CIS4 dataset, on 17 service sectors across 18 countries, we find signif... Read More about Open innovation in services: knowledge sources, intellectual property rights and internationalisation.