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Consumers as Co-Developers Learning and innovation outside the firm
Jeppesen, Lars Bo; Molin, Måns J. - Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, …
This study describes a process in which a firm relies on an external consumer community for innovation. While it has been recognized that users may sometimes innovate, little is known about what commercial firms can do to motivate and capture such innovations and their related benefits. We...
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Why firm-established user communities work for innovation: The personal attributes of innovative users in the case of computer-controlled music instruments
Jeppesen, Lars Bo; Frederiksen, Lars - Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, …
Studies of the sources of innovations have recognized that many innovations are developed by users. However, the fact that firms employ communities of users to strengthen their innovation process has not yet received much attention. In firm-established user communities users freely reveal...
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New HRM Practices, Complementarities, and the Impact on Innovation Performance
Laursen, Keld; Foss, Nicolai J. - Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, …
literature as a possible determinant of innovation performance, very little systematic theoretical and empirical work exist on … between new HRM practices positively influence financial performance, they will also positively influence innovation … performance. We examine this overall hypothesis by estimating an empirical model of innovation performance, using data from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005396487
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Profiting from innovative user communities: How firms organize the production of user modifications in the computer games industry
Jeppesen, Lars Bo - Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, …
Modding – the modification of existing products by consumers – is increasingly exploited by manufacturers to enhance product development and sales. In the computer games industry modding has evolved into a development model in which users act as unpaid “complementors” to manufacturers’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005184861
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The implications of "user toolkits for innovation"
Jeppesen, Lars Bo - Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, …
Leading firms have begun to offer “user toolkits for innovation”. User toolkits are seen as a means to eliminate (costly) iterations of need-related-information between users and producers in the product development process because toolkits allow users to perform need-related aspects of...
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