Firm-hosted online user innovation communities (OUICs) have emerged as a vital source of knowledge and expertise for … innovation and new product development. Prior research on OUICs has primarily focused on participation of external product users … investigating the innovation outcomes of employees participating in OUICs. By analyzing a longitudinal data set collected from …

interpretative model of pre-conditions needed to enact online collaborative product innovation, in particular focusing on: barriers …

Integrating the customer in the innovation process is believed to be a powerful means to reduce failure rates and to … innovation process has to be weighed against the costs. Virtual customer integration has been discussed as a way to limit these … sourcing of ideas. Especially the integration of the customer in the execution phase of the innovation process remains largely …

complements to, and not substitutes for, the original product. We discuss the implications on firm strategy for innovation …

. This phenomenon is known as Open Innovation (OI). In OI research, especially the integration of customers into the early … stages of product or service innovation has caught a lot of attention in theory and practice. Especially since the Internet … as a simple way to communicate with a broad audito- rium allows new forms of customer integration. Web-based innovation …