Exploring collective consumer innovation in health care: Cases and formal modeling

Erik Lakomaa and Tino Sanandaji

Research Policy, 2021, vol. 50, issue 8

Abstract: Research on consumer innovation in health care has shown that patients are important sources of new or improved treatments, care services and diagnostic tools. This paper points to another hitherto overlooked class of consumer innovation in health care, which we call collective consumer innovation. These self-organized service innovations emerge under regulatory constraints, occur on the system level, are collaborative, and tend to cause institutional change. We use historic and contemporary cases from the field of health care in order to document the importance of collective consumer innovation and devise a model to analyze their economic role.

Keywords: Health economics; Social innovation; Open source products and markets; Social entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 L17 L31 O35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2021.104210

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