Florian Denker explores the role of an individual’s domain knowledge for the proficient evaluation of early-stage new product ideas in the front-end of innovation. The results of his study show that in order to ensure an effective evaluation, evaluators of early-stage new product ideas should...

Alexander Sänn presents a functional method based on lead user method, preference measurement, and recommendations using collaborative filtering. The introduced method in this book stimulates input from internal and external sources, predicts basic customers’ acceptance, and evaluates this...

Malte Marwede explores the impact of cognitive distance in product development, in particular whether large distances between developers and the customer target groups adversely affect the creation of customer-centric product ideas. Furthermore, he shows how practical user involvement measures...

Identification of barriers in the user innovation process -- Criteria for distinction of barriers and resource-based problems -- Analysis of moderating effects of innovators’ openness on product properties

Nils Levsen focuses on the international diffusion of product and service innovations for elderly users. In particular, the existence and location of lead markets is being investigated. Lead markets are characterized by their early adoption of innovations and their influence on design choice in...

Timo Weyrauch untersucht, welche Kriterien eine frugale Innnovation definieren und wie frugale Innovationen entwickelt werden können. Im ersten Teil der Untersuchung werden auf Basis eines Literaturreviews sowie einer qualitativen Befragung drei Kriterien entwickelt, um frugale von...