The existing literature on open innovation strongly emphasizes on the organizational level, while neglecting the people side and especially the perspective of employees working in OIprojects. This study analyzes determinants of R&D employees' knowledge exchange in OIprojects by means of the...

Frugal products and services aim at satisfying the unsaturated demand of a large and growing middle class in many emerging economies. Although research has been conducted in regard to the strategic importance of frugal innovations, so far, the actual development process of such innovations has...

After the 2009 general elections in India a controversy started about the electronic voting machines (EVM) that are used nationwide since 2004. Political parties, activists, and academics raised suspicion that the machines might have been manipulated to alter the election outcome. There is no...

Neben der anscheinend hohen, praktischen Relevanz wird zur Zeit die Frage diskutiert, ob frugale Innovation ein eigenständiges, betriebswirtschaftliches Innovations-Konzept rechtfertigt, welches sich markant von anderen, bekannten Ansätzen bzw. einer generellen "Low cost"-Strategie eines...

The level of cognitive distance determines how detailed objects, persons or events are mentally construed. The higher the level of cognitive distance between two individuals, the lower the level of detail in mental representation of each other. In product development, a detailed conception of...

Lead User führen Bedarfstrends an und liefern dabei nicht nur Informationen zur Frage, was benötigt wird, sondern auch wie Lösungen umgesetzt werden können. Diese Lösungsinformationen sind im Innovationprozess von sehr großem Wert für ein Unternehmen, insbesondere wenn sie Monate oder...

Prior research has shown that users are a valuable resource for identifying new product or service innovations. However, few scholars have analyzed how different user types such as intermediate and end users are interacting along the value chain of an emerging new product and how they contribute...

Mobile health (mHealth) with its unique attributes (e.g. instant connectivity, convenience, personalization) is largely considered as a new healthcare paradigm transforming health services around the world. mHealth has also gained popularity in research, especially in the field of technology...

User innovation is a broadly discussed phenomenon in the context of open innovation which describes, for instance, the customer integration into the early phases of new product development). Despite there existing a large body of research in the field of lead users and user innovation,...