products. Especially, collaboration with consumers for product innovation is indispensable. On the other hand, social media has … been spreading all over the world. Network communities formed by social media are one of key factors of innovation achieved … by collaborating with consumer innovators, which is referred to as consumer collaborative innovation. This paper studies …

This study examines preceding factors of user innovation behavior using a case of smartphone applications … toexamineindirect and direct effects of consumer attitude on user innovation. Specifically, this study focuses ontwo aspects of the user … innovation evaluation:quality and quantity. Quality of user innovation in particular has the potentialtocontribute tothe …

machinery industry. Nothing has received as much attention as innovation, which has been pinpointed as the fundamental driving … force for economic growth and welfare as well as a key factor in competitiveness. Therefore, innovation growth is seen as a … mechanism to influence economic growth, and therefore firms capable of increasing their innovation potential benefit from …

innovation networks in the Eindhoven region in the Netherlands. Previous research showed that these networks contribute to … regional economic development. This paper explores the mechanism through which this happens. Temporary innovation networks may …