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Technological Innovation and the Winning-Combination Phenomenon: The Case of the Extracorporeal Lithotriptor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Diane Poulin
Diane Poulin
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Université Laval, Québec
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There are situations where, for many reasons, an innovation considered revolutionary in several respects is widely accepted by those whose ways of doing things are transformed by it. The innovation represents a “winning combination” in that it combines such attractive elements that each party, for its own reasons, will desire its adoption and work toward that common goal. In France, and particularly in the Assistance Publique de Paris and in the Hospices Civils de Lyon, such has been the case with the German-made Dornier extracorporeal lithotriptor, an innovation that makes it possible to destroy kidney stones without surgery.

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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , Winter 1991 , pp. 63 - 67
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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