User community vs. producer innovation development efficiency: A first empirical study

In this paper we report upon a first empirical exploration of the relative efficiency of innovation development by product users vs. product producers. In a study of over 50 years of product innovation in the whitewater kayaking field, we find users in aggregate were approximately 3× more efficient...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hienerth, Christoph, von Hippel, Eric A., Berg Jensen, Morten
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109425
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7235-1032