Characteristics of lead users in different stages of the new product development process: A systematic review in the context of open innovation

B Venesz, T Dőry, AG Raišienė - Journal of Open Innovation: Technology …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite the promising ideas of lead users, the success rate of the open innovation process
remains low if no proper personal characteristics are attached to the external contributor …

Citizens as an innovation source in sustainability transitions–linking the directionality of innovations with the locus of the problem in transformative innovation policy

J Trischler, PO Svensson, H Williams… - Public management …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article argues that citizens play a key role in sustainability transitions: Citizens have
unique knowledge on why social problems occur and experiment with possible solutions to …

[HTML][HTML] Heroes of diffusion: Making user innovations widely available

JPJ de Jong, C Rigtering, L Spaans - Research Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
User innovations are often valuable to other people, but fail to diffuse because users lack
incentives to do a dissemination effort. Past research recognized that users sometimes spur …

[HTML][HTML] The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector

M Mulhuijzen, JPJ de Jong - Research Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Household sector innovation is significant in scale and scope. Thus far, it has been studied
in isolation and with mixed evidence regarding the role of personal resources (consumers' …

Household innovation: its nature, measurement, applications and outlook

JPJ de Jong, E von Hippel - Handbook of Innovation Indicators and …, 2023 - elgaronline.com
Household innovation is the development of functionally novel products, processes, or other
applications by consumers, in their discretionary time without payment (de Jong et al. 2021) …

An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector

X Yu, JPJ de Jong - Research Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
User innovations are widely present in the household sector, but often do not spread to
others because users lack incentives to sell and/or share. Previous studies of what alleviates …

Intrinsic self-rewards for participating in household sector user innovation: Lessons from a survey of Chinese residents

X Wu, L Mei - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2024 - Elsevier
Household sector (HHS) user innovation is recognized as a prevalent type of innovation,
initiated for personal use and unrelated to pecuniary transactions. Considering its non …

[HTML][HTML] Diffusion to peers in firm-hosted user innovation communities: Contributions by professional versus amateur users

M Mulhuijzen, JPJ de Jong - Research Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Users can develop innovations that improve or complement a firm's product. To benefit from
these, firms may host online user innovation communities (UICs) with two purposes: 1 …

Why do user innovators want to pursue user entrepreneurship? On the influence of the communitarian identity

X Yu, T Zhang, MLAM Bogers - Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2023 - Elsevier
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' …

Social identity of user innovators in the household sector: An alleviator of diffusion failure

X Yu, JPJ de Jong - Available at SSRN 4141438, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
User innovations are widely present in the household sector, but often fail to diffuse. Users
typically lack incentives to make their innovations widely available, also when the societal …