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The importance of ergonomic design in product innovation: lessons from the development of the portable computer (2017)
Journal Article
Windrum, P., Frenken, K., & Green, L. (in press). The importance of ergonomic design in product innovation: lessons from the development of the portable computer. Industrial and Corporate Change, https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtx006

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)
Journal Article
Windrum, P., Schartinger, D., & Waring, J. (in press). Co-creation of social innovations and new professional institutions: diffusion of therapeutic patient education (TPE) for diabetes in Austria. Industry and Innovation, https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2017.1295363

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.