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 find users in aggregate were approximately 3X more...

Manufacturers usually benefit by dividing their innovation processes into distinct phases in order to ensure that the development activities are performed efficiently in an appropriate sequence. Users usually do not apply such structured processes. They follow a more intuition-driven approach....

The existing research on the behavior of user innovators has focused almost exclusively on younger users. In light of the demographic shift and the increasing importance of the "Silver Market" segment (customers 55 years plus), we analyzed whether important determinants of user innovator...

Prior research on user innovation has concentrated on markets in which products (e.g., mountain bikes, kitesurfing equipment, tools, etc.) are typically purchased by those users who modify them. However, in numerous markets, this is not the case, for example, those in which equipment is rented....

In dem vorliegenden Beitrag beschreiben wir die exemplarische Anwendung der Choice-Based-Conjoint-Analyse (CBCA) in der ÖPNV-Kaufverhaltensforschung. Ausgehend von den Ergebnissen einer Befragung von mehr als 1000 Abo-Kunden eines deutschen Verkehrsraumes, welche uns von PROBST & CONSORTEN...