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Healthcare hackathons as open innovation

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Healthcare hackathons can bring patient-users, problem-solvers and external stakeholders together to formulate individual patient-user problems and find innovative solutions. Lessons can be learned from open innovation research to organize hackathons that ultimately lead to the design of new patient-specific products.

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We thank Hackahealth for offering access to their hackathons. We also thank ETH’s RESC center for their support in funding the research.

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  1. Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Chan Hyung Park & Georg von Krogh

  2. Chair of Social Networks, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Christoph Stadtfeld

  3. Product Development Group, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Mirko Meboldt

  4. Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Yash Raj Shrestha

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C.H.P. and Y.R.S. wrote and revised the manuscript, with input from G.V.K., C.S. and M.M. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Park, C.H., von Krogh, G., Stadtfeld, C. et al. Healthcare hackathons as open innovation. Nat Rev Bioeng 1, 610–611 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-023-00070-4

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