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Innovation by Lead Users inside the Firm:
It is clear that there are lead users who contribute to innovation inside a company, and that the products conceived by these lead users inside the firm have high idea evaluation and product performance in the marketplace. The purpose of this study is to
Yuya Watanabe
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Embedded lead users in the organization and consumer lead users in the market
Identifying and gaining access to lead users (LUs) in the market is very costly and time-consuming. To enable more efficient access to LUs, this study examines how the proportion of embedded lead users (ELUs) of the organization as employees differs from
Chiharu Shimizu, Sotaro Katsumata
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Patient lead users experience of the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study [PDF]
Objectives Patient lead users can be defined as patients or relatives who use their knowledge and experience to improve their own or a relative’s care situation and/or the healthcare system, and who are active beyond what is usually expected.
Sara Riggare +4 more
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Blood lead determinants and the prevalence of neuropsychiatric symptoms in firearm users in Mexico
Objectives: To identify blood lead predictors and the prevalence of neuropsychiatric symptoms in firearm users of public security in Mexico. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed on 65 males.
Guadalupe Aguilar Madrid +6 more
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The Social Network Position of Lead Users [PDF]
The field of lead user research has seen a great deal of attention from academics and practitioners alike. However, we still lack a full understanding of the nature of users with high potential for innovation. In this paper, we employ a social network perspective on lead users.
Kratzer, Jan +4 more
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Users as innovators? Exploring the limitations of user-driven innovation [PDF]
Considering users as innovators has gained considerable support over the past 30 years. Eric von Hippel’s work in this area forms a significant part of the theoretical underpinning and evidence behind this concept.
Paul Trott +2 more
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The impact of lead users on innovation success [PDF]
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of lead users (LUs) on innovation success by proposing and validating an integrative model that links LUs, innovation success and knowledge sharing (KS) variables.
Reem Marzouki, Wafa Belkahla
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Extending Lead‐User Theory: Antecedents and Consequences of Consumers' Lead Userness* [PDF]
Lead users are found to come up with commercially attractive user innovations and have been shown to be a highly promising source of innovation for new product development tasks. According to lead‐user theory, these users are defined as being ahead of an important market trend and experiencing high benefits from innovating.
Schreier, Martin +1 more
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Performance Evaluation of Products Initiated by Lead Users inside the Firm:
It has become clear that lead users outside a company can contribute to innovation, but it is difficult for companies to take advantage of these activities because the users are not in the company.
Yuya Watanabe
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Despite the promising ideas of lead users, the success rate of the open innovation process remains low if no proper personal characteristics are attached to the external contributor. The knowledge about the essential characteristic elements of lead users
Béla Venesz +2 more
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