In many online communities, users reveal innovative and potentially valuable intellectual property (IP) under conditions that entail the risk of theft and imitation. When there is rivalry and formal IP law is not effective, this would lead to underinvestment or withholding of IP – unless...

This study contributes to our understanding of the innovation process by bringing attention to and investigating the process by which innovators outside of firms obtain innovation-related resources and assistance. This study is the first to explicitly examine how user-innovators gather the...

In the present, study a covariance structure model is tested to identify the causes of entrepreneurial intent among engineering students. Specifically, we explore whether steady personal dispositions or whether perceptions of contextual founding conditions have an impact on the intention to...

The "lead user construct" was developed to preferentially identify commercially attractive innovation-related information developed by users of products and services. In this research, we use data drawn from users of Apache, an open source software project, to assess the association between each...

Manufacturers customarily provide only a few product variants to address the average needs of users in the major segments of markets they serve. When user needs are highly heterogeneous, this approach leaves many seriously dissatisfied. One solution is to enable users to modify products on their...

In order to configure individual products according to their own preferences, customers are required to know what they want. While most research simply assumes that consumers have sufficient preference insight, a number of psychologically oriented scholars have recently voiced serious concerns...

Die vorliegende Schrift faßt den gegenwärtigen Stand der Innovationsforschung in seiner Vielfalt und thematischen Breite zusammen. In gut verständlichen Kurzbeiträgen werden aktuelle Konzepte zu den einzelnen Funktionen des Innovationsprozesses (Forschung und Entwicklung, Organisation,...

Purpose – This article seeks to provide an empirical identification of groups of marketing scholars who share common beliefs about the role of science and the logic of scientific discovery. Design/methodology/approach – Topology is used representing network quantization to identify...