Research on technology commercialisation and science–industry interactions overlooks the specificity of connections between science and traditional low- and medium-technology (TLMT) industries. The few studies on science-based innovation in TLMT industries focus on barriers to investing,...

Balancing various stakeholder (often contradictory) expectations creates tensions when developing value propositions for a new firm. Customers, funders, owners, and society-at-large often expect different value outcomes from a firm. They therefore have different motivations for being involved in...

Using insights from the user innovation and knowledge management literature, we develop and empirically illustrate a typology of user inputs for innovation. Based on the knowledge complexity and uncertainty associated with a particular innovation, we propose four user input types and link them...

Challenge-based funding approaches for allocating public research funds are generally well-understood. However, whether the funded research groups’ projects are affected by the specific characteristics of grand challenges remains unclear. Anecdotally, some scholars have suggested that such...

Overview: While customer-centered innovation has thus far focused on best practices for user-producer collaboration and organizing users to obtain relevant inputs, the internal organization that enables firms to integrate user knowledge into product innovation outputs is less well understood. We...

Crowdsourcing ideas from users in online communities are becoming common practice in the development of high-tech products. While most studies focus on sourcing ideas from ordinary users (i.e., non-experts), high-tech firms commonly rely more on ‘lead users’. Despite the importance of lead...