Who are User Entrepreneurs? Findings on Innovation, Founder Characteristics, and Firm Characteristics (The Kauffman Firm Survey)

Shah, Sonali; Smith, Sheryl Winston; Reedy, E. J.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2018517

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“…For some users, innovation ideas and efforts become the starting point for their businesses. User entrepreneurship occurs in vastly different industries (Chandra & Leenders, 2012;Haefliger, Jäger & Von Krogh, 2010;Shah, Smith & Reedy, 2012;Shah & Tripsas, 2007). Shah and Tripsas (2007) propose that user-entrepreneurship is more likely to dominate classic sources of entrepreneurship under four conditions: (1) when the use of a particular product provides enjoyment; (2) when users have relatively low opportunity cost; (3) when the industry is characterized by niche markets with a high variety in demand; (4) when the market for the product is highly uncertain.…”

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User Innovation: State of the Art and Perspectives for Future Research

Roszkowska-Menkes¹

2017

JEMI

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Given the rising role of users in innovation processes and the increasing amount of research in this field the aim of this paper is to explore the limits of our understanding of the user innovation (UI) concept. In doing so, the study addresses four basic questions: (1) Why do users create and share innovation? (2) Who is the userinnovator? (3) What type of innovation do users create? (4) How do users innovate?The results of a systematic literature review identified the main research streams on user innovation, together with weaknesses of past research and perspectives for future studies.

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Section: Figure 1 User Innovation Modelsmentioning

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User Innovation: State of the Art and Perspectives for Future Research

Roszkowska-Menkes¹

2017

JEMI

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“…Experience helps shape the entrepreneur's ability to recognize market opportunities and influences how they decide to exploit them (Shane ). Many successful businesses are started in response to outstanding problems or other unmet needs facing suppliers and customers that could only be identified through direct and regular exposure, a group referred to by Shah, Winston Smithy, and Reedy () as “professional‐user entrepreneurs.” Experienced entrepreneurs are also versed in the norms and organization routines particular to an industry, and are better positioned to replicate successful routines of incumbents, while avoiding mistakes made by novices (Dahl and Reichstein ; Klepper ). Networks and contacts are also critical.…”

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Externalities or Experience? Localization Economies and Start‐up Business Survival

Renski¹

2015

Growth and Change

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This study examines whether spatial variations in the human capital of business owners help explain why the failure rates of new businesses tend to be lower in areas where similar businesses are concentrated. More specifically, I test whether the prior industry experience of the firm's owner/founder has a mediating influence on the relationship between industrial localization and new business failure for six industry sectors. Localization is found to have either a beneficial or a damaging relationship to new firm survival, depending on the industry in question. Localization reduces the likelihood of failure in two sectors, while competition effects prevail in two others. When industry experience is added to the models, the benefits of localization diminish, but only for entrants in the business, professional, and information services sector and only by a small amount. This suggests that at least some of the observed benefits of localization are due to regional differences in embodied human capital, but localization economies remain significant. Further study is needed to see if such mediating effects are common among a wider array of more narrowly defined industries and for other forms of entrepreneurial human capital.

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“…Recent research found that innovating (lead) users frequently engage in commercializing their developments (Shah et al 2012). Accordingly, the term user entrepreneurship has been defined as the commercialization of a new product and/or service by an individual or group of individuals who are also innovative users of that product and/or service (Shah and Tripsas 2007).…”

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Advances in Production Technology

2015

Lecture Notes in Production Engineering

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Who are User Entrepreneurs? Findings on Innovation, Founder Characteristics, and Firm Characteristics (The Kauffman Firm Survey)

Cited by 34 publications

References 15 publications

User Innovation: State of the Art and Perspectives for Future Research

User Innovation: State of the Art and Perspectives for Future Research

Externalities or Experience? Localization Economies and Start‐up Business Survival

Advances in Production Technology

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