Prior research on user innovation has concentrated on markets in which products (e.g., mountain bikes, kitesurfing … innovation behavior. We question whether absent ownership is an innovation barrier, negatively impacting users' propensity to … reveal that private ownership has significant positive effects on user innovation behavior. Users, who own their equipment …

"Base of the Pyramid" (BoP). However, this type of innovation requires more, in-depth information on the BoP and solution … but remains silent on how to identify and integrate BoP consumers into the innovation process. One obvious solution is to … innovation exists at the BoP at what levels of quality and 2) how firms can support the innovators to implement them into real …