While users may be an important source of innovation, and even of entrepreneurship, we know little about the exact psychological mechanism that underpins user innovators’ transition to user entrepreneurship (UE). In this study, we focus on user innovators’ communitarian identity, which is a...

What role do users play during innovation? Ever since it was argued that users can also be the sources of innovation, the literature on the role of users during innovation has grown tremendously. In this paper, we review this growing literature, critique it and develop some of the research...

In this paper, we explore the amount and impact of firms that can be considered being user innovators. Using the Swiss Innovation Survey, we identify a sample of innovative firms that we explore with regard to their commitment to R&D. We thereby create a measure for informal innovation—that...

In this paper, we explore innovation, as an inherently uncertain process, from a complexity perspective in which innovation is understood as new patterns of experiences, as they emerge in human conversational interaction. By reflecting on local interactions between people involved in processes...