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....

chapter Part A The Democratization Potential -- part Part B Barriers to Democratization -- chapter B.1 Exploring the Barriers to User-Innovation -- chapter B.2 Empirical Analysis in the Field of Medical Devices -- chapter Part C The Dynamics of User-Innovation -- part Part D The Paradigm of...