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Adverse User Innovation

open access: yesAnnals of Business Administrative Science, 2016
Von Hippel (1988) coined the term “user innovation” by arguing that semiconductor device makers (equipment users) played a critical role as innovators in the development of semiconductor process equipments.
Seungkee MIN
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User Innovation in the Digital Economy

open access: yesForesight and STI Governance, 2019
The paper reviews the current state of user innovation in the business and the households sectors and considers the impact of the digital economy on user innovation.
Fred Gault
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User innovation and the market [PDF]

open access: yesScience and Public Policy, 2011
This paper proposes a way of including in official statistics consumers as user innovators who modify or develop products for their own use. The issue addressed is the role of the market in the definition of innovation in the OECD/Eurostat Oslo Manual and the exclusion by the definition of consumers who modify or develop products and then freely reveal
Gault, Fred
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Examining the benefits, challenges, and drivers of open user innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises operating in low R&D industries [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon
Recent studies have indicated that many challenges exist in implementing open user innovation in SMEs. As a more advanced paradigm of traditional innovation, open user innovations are developed by users and other stakeholders who share tasks and costs of
Mana Alyami   +3 more
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Users as innovators? Exploring the limitations of user-driven innovation [PDF]

open access: yesPrometheus, 2013
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. Many further studies have been undertaken to support it.
Trott, Paul   +2 more
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Decision-makers’ underestimation of user innovation

open access: yesResearch Policy, 2019
In the past few decades, much research has documented the importance of users as sources of innovations. Over the last 10 years, Research Policy alone has published 56 research articles investigating this phenomenon. We ask to what degree the findings of users as innovators have been absorbed by decision-makers responsible for new product development ...
Bradonjic, Philip   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Opening up Corporate Foresight: What Can We Learn from Open and User Innovation?

open access: yesJournal of Innovation Management, 2018
Organizations find themselves in a fast-paced and increasingly complex and uncertain environment. Hence, they engage in foresight to understand weak signals and developments that may affect them in the medium to long run and build up "strategic ...
Sabrina Korreck
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User Innovation: State of the Art and Perspectives for Future Research

open access: yesJournal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation, 2017
Given the rising role of users in innovaton processes and the increasing amount of research in this feld the aim of this paper is to explore the limits of our understanding of the user innovaton (UI) concept.
Maria Roszkowska-Menkes
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USER-DRIVEN INNOVATION: TOWARDS A NEW INNOVATION PARADIGM

open access: yesEconomic Review, 2014
The holistic approach to innovation includes establishing a wide range of interactions among different actors which implies development and expansion of methods, approaches and tools for improving the innovation.
Slavica Rocheska   +3 more
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Commercializing user innovations by vertical diversification: The user–manufacturer innovator [PDF]

open access: yesResearch Policy, 2016
This paper explores a pathway to commercializing user innovations hitherto not studied, namely, the vertical diversification of a user firm into an upstream industry supplying capital goods, and subsequent coexistence of user and manufacturing units. Such coexistence creates synergies regarding innovation, marketing, and financials.
Block, Joern   +3 more
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