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User Involvement: How We Integrated Users into the Innovation Process and What We Learned from It

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It is the general message of the whole book that the users and future buyers of a product or service have to take part in the innovation process from the strategic phase to the go to market stage.

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    European Statistical Office http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/

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    Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spanish Statistical Office) http://www.ine.es/

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    Statistisches Bundesamt (German Statistical Office) https://www.destatis.de/

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    Detailed information about the SIMPLIT seal and methodology is available on the official site http://www.simplit.es/ in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

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Barberà-Guillem, R. et al. (2014). User Involvement: How We Integrated Users into the Innovation Process and What We Learned from It. In: Moritz, E. (eds) Assistive Technologies for the Interaction of the Elderly. Advanced Technologies and Societal Change. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00678-9_4

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