User Innovation Barriers’ Impact on User-Developed Products

1. Front Matter

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2. Focus and scope

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   Pages 1-53

3. Qualitative study – Distinction of barriers and constraints

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   Pages 57-113

4. Quantitative study – Impact of barriers on user innovation

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   Pages 115-189

5. Integration of findings

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   Pages 191-226

6. Back Matter

   Pages 231-275

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Thorsten Pieper explores the impact of innovation barriers along the user innovation process, in particular whether technological, social, legal and ownership barriers change the properties of user-developed products. This study roots from the “open innovation” research field and reveals insights from innovating users in “collaborative workspaces”. The results prove a hierarchical allocation of innovation barriers regarding their influence on the end-product and moderating influences of user innovators’ personal characteristics. The author discusses these insights and provides practical recommendations for more efficient promotion of user innovations and successful integration in corporate "co-creation" projects.

• Open and User Innovation
• User Innovation Process
• User Innovator Characteristics
• Lead User Research
• Quantitative Study
• Collaborative Workspaces
• User Innovation Barriers’ Impact
• User-Developed Products
• Empirical Investigation
• Identification of barriers
• Criteria for distinction of barriers
• Resource-based problems
• Moderating effects of innovators’ openness
• Product properties

• TU Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  Thorsten Pieper

Thorsten Pieper is project manager and researcher at the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management focusing on open innovation in the field of aircraft industries, agricultural machinery and consumer goods. He graduated at the Hamburg University of Technology with Prof. Dr. Cornelius Herstatt.

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