Market failure in the diffusion of consumer-developed innovations: Patterns in Finland

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“…In this case, the innovation is often licensed to an established producer already present in the market (de Jong et al 2015).…”

Section: User Innovation and User Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Are Patients and Relatives the Better Innovators? The Case of Medical Smartphone Applications

Goeldner

Herstatt

2016

SSRN Journal

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“…Cohen's κ was run to determine agreement between the two judges about whether ideas could also be considered valuable for non-disabled persons. This binary variable is derived from De Jong et al [31].…”

Section: Assessing Idea Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To classify ideas, we used a categorization proposed by De Jong et al [31]. This includes: (1) household fixtures or furnishing; (2) computer software; (3) vehicle-related; (4) food or clothing; (5) health, care or medical (6); tools or equipment; (7) sports, hobby or, entertainment; (8) any other items.…”

Section: Generated Ideasmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Product Ideation by Persons with Disabilities

Conradie

Herregodts

Marez

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Development and Technologies for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighti

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Product dissatisfaction among persons with disabilities is not uncommon. Innovation theory suggests that dissatisfied users who stand to benefit from having their unmet needs solved, are likely to be product innovators. However, among disabled persons, little empirical research has thus far been done to determine their degree of ideation, or which characteristics are associated with product ideators. Within this study, we present results from a survey of 178 persons with disabilities, exploring their ideas for products. A panel of two expert judges evaluated their ideas based on user value, feasibility and originality. Using the total score of these three attributes, we used a hierarchical multiple regression model to explore which user attributes can be associated with the best ideas. Our results indicate that overall product dissatisfaction and academic degree ownership both effect idea quality. Furthermore, 12% of respondents also generated ideas that are relevant for nondisabled people.

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“…Similarly, recent studies have dealt with topics such as the analysis of users' roles as innovators in specific industries [16,17] and interactions between users and manufacturers [18]. At the same time, changes in user innovation have been significantly discussed in previous studies by analyzing interactions among users [19][20][21] and providing suggestions for the ways in which firms can utilize user communities and crowd sourcing [22][23][24] for innovation.…”

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How Firms Can Get Ideas from Users for Sustainable Business Innovation

Cho¹,

Lee²

2015

Sustainability

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Abstract:The importance of user information and user participation for seeking business opportunities has been widely acknowledged in a variety of industries. Therefore, this study aims to suggest a typology for user innovation models as a strategy for sustainable development and to investigate the characteristics of different types user innovation to encourage and support improved utilization of user innovation in firms. For this purpose, we began by collecting 435 relevant papers from the most-cited academic journals. Then, we developed a typology of user innovation models, which consist of four types including workshop-based, consortium-based, crowdsourcing-based and platform-based, and we investigated the characteristics of the suggested types in terms of applications and research trends. The analysis results reveal that each type has different characteristics and that there exist some research gaps in the user innovation field. Our results are expected to foster understanding of user innovation for guiding sustainable business development and provide useful information for both researchers and innovation mangers.

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Market failure in the diffusion of consumer-developed innovations: Patterns in Finland

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Are Patients and Relatives the Better Innovators? The Case of Medical Smartphone Applications

Are Patients and Relatives the Better Innovators? The Case of Medical Smartphone Applications

Product Ideation by Persons with Disabilities

How Firms Can Get Ideas from Users for Sustainable Business Innovation

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