Measuring user innovation in Dutch high tech SMEs: Frequency, nature and transfer to producers

A detailed survey of 498 “high tech” SMEs in the Netherlands shows process innovation by user firms to be common practice. Fifty four percent of these relatively small firms reported developing entirely novel process equipment or software for their own use and/or modifying these at significant priv...

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Main Authors: de Jong, Jeroen P.J., von Hippel, Eric A.
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65622

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