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