User Innovation Barriers’ Impact on User-Developed Products

An Empirical Investigation on User Innovation Processes

verfasst von: Dipl.-Ing. Thorsten Pieper

Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

Buchreihe : Forschungs-/Entwicklungs-/Innovations-Management

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Thorsten Pieper explores the impact of innovation barriers along the user innovation process, in particular whether technological, social, legal and ownership barriers change the properties of user-developed products. This study roots from the “open innovation” research field and reveals insights from innovating users in “collaborative workspaces”. The results prove a hierarchical allocation of innovation barriers regarding their influence on the end-product and moderating influences of user innovators’ personal characteristics. The author discusses these insights and provides practical recommendations for more efficient promotion of user innovations and successful integration in corporate "co-creation" projects.

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Frontmatter

Focus and scope

Abstract

I was this boy. Thus, I had to build my own ferry. It was clear to me what it should look like: Almost identical to the ferries I knew from my homeland by the sea. After this idea generation and construction phase, I managed to build a reliable prototype for my personal use. Unfortunately, technological issues, social influences, and a lack of required parts led to a very different solution. This solution incorporated lower user value to me in terms of car capacity, and provided a more complex solution for “roll on & roll off” the ferry than initially intended.

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Qualitative study – Distinction of barriers and constraints

Abstract

Lead users are a valuable source of innovation for manufacturers, not just through collaboration in development or application of the lead user method (Herstatt and von Hippel, 1992; Lüthje and Herstatt, 2004), but also because of the high probability that they become user innovators. Urban and von Hippel (1988) found in their studies’ sample that 82% of the lead users developed innovative products and only 1% of the users showing no lead user characteristics did so (see Figure 11).

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Quantitative study – Impact of barriers on user innovation

Abstract

The qualitative study (see section II) revealed by exploratory analyses that user innovation barriers and resource constraints influence the user innovation process differently. Further they also influence the user innovations’ product properties differently. Thus, the study spawned two distinct research fields: The impact of barriers on user innovation and the impact of resource-based constraints on user innovation. The present quantitative study aims to focus on the first mentioned research field of user innovation barriers and to go beyond the current findings. The objective is to explore direct and moderating effects of user innovation barriers and user innovators’ characteristics on the user innovations’ product properties at the hand of the dissertation’s research questions.

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Integration of findings

Abstract

In this section, the results from the quantitative study (that integrated the qualitative results) will be discussed against the background of related theory. Thus, the discussion in section 1 pictures the discussion of the complete dissertation’s outcome with a special focus on the quantitative results. Implications for theory and managerial implications will be provided in section 2 and the research methods and results will be critically assessed in the limitations section 1. The section closes with directions for future research in section 1 and the conclusion in section 5.

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Backmatter

Titel: User Innovation Barriers’ Impact on User-Developed Products
verfasst von: Dipl.-Ing. Thorsten Pieper
Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-658-25506-0
Print ISBN: 978-3-658-25505-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25506-0