Frugal innovation in the context of developed ecomomies has witnessed increasing interest in recent years. For Western multinational companies (MNCs) emerging markets represent promising opportunities for growth as well as the threat of new local competitors. Furthermore, economic developments...

In a study of innovations developed by mountain bikers, we find that user-innovators almost always utilize “local” information– information already in their possession or generated by themselves – both to determine the need for and to develop the solutions for their innovations. We argue...

Harnessing tacit knowledge rooted in use experience for innovation is a major challenge for firms. To do so, firms have to find ways to extract, transfer and interpret this knowledge and then to best combine it with the firm's technical expertise. This paper explores a phenomenon that is novel...