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 is crucial to select the right lead users...

This paper reports on a text mining-based case study aimed at determining how virtual reality (VR) games, as examples of really new products (RNPs), market themselves when they are introduced to the mass market. The goal was to examine the marketing foci of RNPs and any subsequent changes over...

The purpose of the present study was to identify the customer requirements and engineering attribute expectations of an innovative product to which a Kano's model and quality function deployment (QFD) analysis was applied. In order to accomplish the research, a new water filling machine design...

The development of Web3 - a stack of decentralised technologies underpinned by blockchains - isn’t simply a technical or financing challenge, it is also a problem of innovation and entrepreneurial discovery. In this paper we apply the lens of user innovation toolkit theory to the development...

In today's rapidly digitising world, organisations often face challenges in achieving successful technology implementation, with low returns on investment and a significant gap between technology utilisation and acceptance. Electronic Health Record (EHR) software provides a comprehensive...

Augmented reality (AR) technology is a computer-generated object that allows users to enrich the experience of products virtually with graphics, images, etc. Due to a lack of studies in developing countries like Malaysia, more studies are necessary to understand the pressing factors of diffusing...

This study collected literature on augmented reality (AR) from academic and patent databases to plot the historic development trajectory of AR and forecast its future research and development trends. A total of 3193 and 13,629 papers were collected from academic and patent databases,...

Mountain glaciers are considered great reservoirs of water, and their importance lies in the fact that many of our ecosystems and numerous communities depend on them; Peru has one of the largest extensions of Andean snow-capped mountains, which have been affected by the decline in their glacier...

This study highlights the contribution of the role of social media in supporting customer involvement for service innovation. It is commonplace that many service firms and processes have characteristics that differ from manufacturing. Analyzing the literature, we note that there are many...

While open innovation and university-industry collaboration contribute significantly to innovation in industrialized countries, it is less clear how these create value in emerging economies and new application contexts. This study examines the introduction of global practices into the Nicaraguan...