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Finding Commercially Attractive User Innovations: A Test of Lead User Theory [PDF]
Firms and governments are increasingly interested in learning to exploit the value of lead‐user innovations for commercial advantage. Improvements to lead‐user theory are needed to inform and to guide these efforts. The present study empirically tests and confirms the basic tenets of lead‐user theory.
Franke, Nikolaus +2 more
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User Communities — Drivers for Open Innovation
User innovation is the result of information asymmetry. Manufacturers are not completely aware of consumer needs; as a result, skilled users can improve products and suit them to their needs.
Gunnar Prause, Thomas Thurner
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Navigating The Department Of Energy (Doe) Energy Conservation Standard And Test Procedure For Pumps [PDF]
TutorialFollowing the European Union s (EU) lead, the United States (US) Department of Energy (DOE) began the long process of regulating the energy consumption of pumps in 2011 and, with support from the industry and advocates, published a final Energy
Gaydon, Peter
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An Empirical Study of the Characteristics of Consumers as Lead Users in a Survey Framework:
Lead users who recognize advanced needs and expect benefits from solving such needs are attracting attention from various viewpoints, such as new product development, diffusion, and customer development.
Seiichiro Honjo
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From Idea Crowdsourcing to Managing User Knowledge [PDF]
This article explores how technology companies can benefit from user knowledge in product and service innovation beyond mere idea generation through crowdsourcing.
Risto Rajala +3 more
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Innovation by Retail Store Salespersons:
This paper proposes a new value for retail store salespersons in response to the low productivity of the Japanese retail industry compared with that of the United States. The new value is innovation by retail store salespersons.
Yuya Watanabe, Hidehiko Nishikawa
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Defining, Detecting, and Characterizing Power Users in Threads
Threads is a new social network that was launched by Meta in July 2023 and conceived as a direct alternative to X. It is a unique case study in the social network landscape, as it is content-based like X, but has an Instagram-based growth model, which ...
Gianluca Bonifazi +6 more
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Lead poisoning among opium users in Iran: an emerging health hazard
Background Lead (Pb) poisoning among people using opium has been an increasing problem in Iran. The present study highlights the clinical effects of lead toxicity associated with opium use in Iran, Kerman province.
Mohammad Mahdi Hayatbakhsh +10 more
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Automated identification of different lead users regarding the innovation process [PDF]
Lead users are often established in an organizational innovation process to attenuate the difficulties a company faces, such as high costs or the obscurity of customers' needs. But to benefit from these lead users a major challenge is to characterize and
Leist, Susanne +2 more
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ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele +19 more
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