Open innovation is now a widely used concept in academia, industry, and policy-making. According to the recent report “The Open Innovation Barometer”, released by the Economist …
E Mollick, A Robb - California management review, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This article focuses on how crowdfunding might democratize the commercialization of innovation as well as financing. First, it examines how crowdfunders decide what effort to …
In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms …
MD Packard - Journal of Business Venturing, 2017 - Elsevier
I argue that an interpretivist philosophic approach has been neglected in modern entrepreneurship research, but that such an approach may be most appropriate to the …
Innovation occurs when knowledge about unmet customer needs intersects with knowledge about technological solutions. Both knowledge types are often located outside the firm and …
This study examines the performance of user entrepreneurs in acquiring financial resources via crowdfunding. User entrepreneurs are thought to have better performance than non-user …
Household innovation UK paper Page 1 MIT Open Access Articles The Age of the Consumer-Innovator The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits …
The authors study consumer perceptions of firms that sell products designed by users. In contrast with the traditional design mode, in which professional designers employed by firms …
A Brem, V Bilgram, A Marchuk - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2019 - Elsevier
Crowdfunding has become a key research trend in recent years providing a new form of acquiring funding for innovation projects from users prior to the realization of the product in a …