User needs for a given product type can be quite heterogeneous. Segmenting the market and providing solutions for average user needs in each segment is a partial answer that will typically leave many dissatisfied - some seriously so....

Kovarianzstrukturanalytische Erklärung studentischen Gründungsverhaltens anhand der Persönlichkeitskonstrukte "Risikopräferenz" und "Unabhängigkeitsstreben" sowie der subjektiven Wahrnehmung der Umfeldbedingungen [Nikolaus Franke, Christian Lüthje]<p>Dieses Arbeitspapier ist ebenfalls als...</p>

The idea of integrating users into the design and production process is a promising strategy for companies being forced to react to the growing individualization of demand. While there is a huge amount of managerial literature on mass customization, empirical findings are scarce.(...)

The start-up team plays a key role in venture capitalists’ evaluations of venture proposals. Ourfindings go beyond existing research, first by providing a detailed exploration of VCs’ team evaluationcriteria, and second by investigating the moderator variable of VC experience. Our results...

This paper extends recent research studying biases in venture capitalist’s decision-making. Wecontribute to this literature by analyzing biases arising from similarity between a venture capitalist andmembers of a venture team. We summarize the psychological foundations of such similarity...

In this paper the authors explore the incentives that usersmight have to freely reveal their proprietary innovations. They develop agame-theoretic model to explore the effect of these incentives on users´ decisions to reveal or hide their proprietary information.

In this paper explores the conditions favorable to user innovationnetworks are often present in the economy.

In this paper explores how the mundane but necessary task offield support for open source Apache server software is organized,and how and why users are motivated to participate in providing it.

3M correctly prides itself on being an innovative, technology-basedcompany, and they have an excellent track over the years with respect toinnovation ...

To solve a problem, needed information and problem-solving capabilities must be brought together... [Eric von Hippel]<p>