innovation success in establishments without R&D but not in establishments with R&D. This supports the hypothesis that rivals …

Firms' search for external knowledge is one aspect of knowledge integration in the innovation process. The literature … has investigated innovation and the breadth of search in different information channels. We introduce the concept of … search balance reflecting the heterogeneity of a firm's knowledge base. Results from German Community Innovation Survey data …

User innovation is a broadly discussed phenomenon in the context of open innovation which describes, for instance, the … field of lead users and user innovation, scientific literature provides only a few insights into how barriers are … research into the effects of user innovation barriers on user-generated products, and how user innovators' personal …

study the role that firms' and users' activities on Facebook play in the innovation process. We find that firms' adoption of … actively ask for feedback, while only negative user comments are positively and significantly related to innovation success …

study the role that firms' and users' activities on Facebook play in the innovation process. We find that firms' adoption of … actively ask for feedback, while only negative user comments are positively and significantly related to innovation success …

In this paper we report upon a first empirical exploration of the relative efficiency of innovation development by … product users vs. product producers. In a study of over 50 years of product innovation in the whitewater kayaking field, we …

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 …