Luthje, Christian; Herstatt, Cornelius; von Hippel, Eric - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of … - 2003
is the most relevant to user-innovators, since the bulk of their innovation-related rewards typically come from in …-house use. Local solution information that is already "in stock" is preferred because it can be applied to innovation …-related problem-solving at a relatively low cost. Our findings suggest that innovation development is distributed among users in an …