Generating ideas for new products used to be the exclusive domain of marketers, engineers, and/or designers. Users have only recently been recognized as an alternative source of new product ideas. Whereas some have attributed great potential to outsourcing idea generation to the “crowd” of...

Companies have recently begun to use the Internet to integrate their customers more actively into various phases of the new product development process. One such strategy involves empowering customers to cooperate in selecting the product concepts to be marketed by the firm. In such scenarios,...

Crowdfunding involves financing new ventures by relying on a large number of individual project backers who typically receive the venture’s new product as a reward for their financial support. In three experimental studies, it is revealed that crowdfunding participation increases the extent to...

1 Einleitung -- 1.1 Hintergrund der Arbeit -- 1.2 Zielsetzung der Arbeit -- 1.3 Das realtheoretische Wissenschaftsmodell als Analyserahmen -- 1.4 Aufbau der Arbeit -- 2 Hintergrund: Paradigmen der Neuproduktentwicklung -- 2.1 Das „Manufacturer-active Paradigm“ — die traditionelle...

Recently, toolkits for user innovation and design have been proposed as a promising means of opening up the innovation process to customers. Using these tools, customers can take on problem-solving tasks and design products to fit their individual needs. To date, arguments in favor of this new...