Health and welfare technology companies’ needs and wishes related to living lab/testbed services
Ray, Linda (2022)
2022
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202205077820
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202205077820
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The study aimed to describe the knowledge health and welfare technology companies have about living labs/testbeds and to analyze companies’ needs and wishes related to living lab/testbed services. Exploring the health and welfare technology companies’ knowledge, needs and wishes enables the providers of living lab/testbed services to develop their services to benefit companies. This allows the companies to create better products and services for both healthcare professionals and patients, leading to cost-effectiveness and saving resources in the healthcare sector. A survey was thought to be a suitable method to study this.
A questionnaire was sent out to 41 health and welfare technology companies in the Satakunta area. The questionnaire contained both open-ended and close-ended questions. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the quantitative data and conventional content analysis to analyze the qualitative data, i.e., the data from the open-ended questions. Since there were not that many answers to the open-ended questions, the coding was done manually.
The results indicated that there is not enough information available about living lab/testbed activities in Satakunta and that the health and welfare technology companies operating in the Satakunta area are not that familiar with the living lab/testbed concept either. The companies need help at the end of the product development phase with testing a ready product, acquiring scientific references for their product, and expanding the product’s target group.
The living lab/testbed services providers should make information about their activities available, using an electronic newsletter, their web page, and LinkedIn. More information about the different options that the living labs/testbeds can provide, could also make the companies more interested in allocating money to living lab and testbed services.
A questionnaire was sent out to 41 health and welfare technology companies in the Satakunta area. The questionnaire contained both open-ended and close-ended questions. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the quantitative data and conventional content analysis to analyze the qualitative data, i.e., the data from the open-ended questions. Since there were not that many answers to the open-ended questions, the coding was done manually.
The results indicated that there is not enough information available about living lab/testbed activities in Satakunta and that the health and welfare technology companies operating in the Satakunta area are not that familiar with the living lab/testbed concept either. The companies need help at the end of the product development phase with testing a ready product, acquiring scientific references for their product, and expanding the product’s target group.
The living lab/testbed services providers should make information about their activities available, using an electronic newsletter, their web page, and LinkedIn. More information about the different options that the living labs/testbeds can provide, could also make the companies more interested in allocating money to living lab and testbed services.