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How 'Internal' Users Contribute to Corporate Product Innovation: The Case of Embedded Users

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Harnessing tacit knowledge rooted in use experience and exploiting it for innovation is a major challenge for firms. This paper explores ‘embedded users’ as a mechanism to extract and utilize such knowledge for innovation. Embedded users are firm employees, who are also users of the firm's products.
Schweisfurth, Tim G., Herstatt, Cornelius   +1 more
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Conceptual foundations of the embedded lead user phenomenon

2012
The phenomenon of user innovation and its theoretical underpinnings are closely linked to Eric von Hippel who started his work on this topic in the seventies. He was one of the first scholars who challenged the traditional view of innovation (also called manufacturer-active paradigm) which regarded customers and users as passive consumers of innovation
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When passion meets profession – How embedded lead users contribute to firm innovation

2012
As already mentioned,the inclusion of external sourcesof innovation isan importantsuccess factor of new product development and precondition for exploring latentcustomer needs (Ernst 2002; Henard and Szymanski 2001). However,the integration ofuser innovations into corporate contexts is an ambitious task, as corporate and user innovationembody ...
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Embedded lead users inside the firm: How innovative user employees contribute to the corporate product innovation process

2013
The central phenomenon of this book are embedded lead users (ELUs): employees of firms who exhibit lead user characteristics in relation to their employing firm’s products or services. Examples for this phenomenon exist amongst others in the sporting industry in which users of sporting goods are at the same time employed by manufacturers of these goods.
Schweisfurth, Tim, Herstatt, Cornelius
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Comparing internal and external lead users as sources of innovation

Research Policy, 2017
Tim G Schweisfurth
exaly  

Embedded (Lead) Users as Catalysts to Product Diffusion

Creativity and Innovation Management, 2015
Tim G Schweisfurth, Cornelius Herstatt
exaly  

Does lead userness foster idea implementation and diffusion? A study of internal shopfloor users

Research Policy, 2019
Tim G Schweisfurth
exaly  

Lead users and the adoption and diffusion of new products: Insights from two extreme sports communities

Marketing Letters, 2007
Martin Schreier, Reinhard Prügl
exaly  

The nature of lead users and measurement of leading edge status

Research Policy, 2004
Pamela D Morrison, John H Roberts, David F Midgley   +2 more
exaly  

CHRONICALLY EMBEDDED LEAD PROJECTILES IN WILDLIFE: A CASE SERIES INVESTIGATING THE POTENTIAL FOR LEAD TOXICOSIS

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 2015
Elise E B Ladouceur, Tabitha Viner
exaly