Users can develop innovations which will benefit other people and contribute to firm’s innovation capability. However, user innovation often fails to diffuse. In this study, we take the perspective of vocational and retirement studies to analyze whether the older age (60+ years old) of the...

Innovative users can not only generate ideas for new products, but also self-select whether to share their ideas with peers or producers. Different innovative users have different degree of lead userness, and their ideas are usually rooted in tacit need-related knowledge. Because it has been...

Purpose: In heterogeneously segmented markets, collaborating with product users in product innovation is important for business success. End user innovators and embedded user innovators differ in terms of their prior embeddedness in the target industry. The purpose of this study is twofold....

A novel grain boundary diffusion process with low-pressure technology was employed to develop Nd-Fe-B sintered magnet samples as thick as 2mm. The uniform and successive Nd-rich phase in the low-pressure diffused magnets promotes Tb atoms to permeate inside the magnets, and the diffusion depth...