Integrating the customer in the innovation process is believed to be a powerful means to reduce failure rates and to … innovation process has to be weighed against the costs. Virtual customer integration has been discussed as a way to limit these … sourcing of ideas. Especially the integration of the customer in the execution phase of the innovation process remains largely …

This research provides knowledge and builds theory related to how and why consumers engage in unsolicited innovation … from the organization(s) linked to the source material of their innovation, and of their interpretation of the overall … context in which they engage in innovation. This paper reveals that there are two main types of ‘creative consumers' – those …

This paper summarises some of the content and conclusions of a new book which discusses the innovation, design and …) phones – from their original inventions to the present. It discusses common patterns of innovation, how environmental … environment. It concludes with trends and sustainability challenges for future consumer product design and innovation …

This study examines preceding factors of user innovation behavior using a case of smartphone applications … toexamineindirect and direct effects of consumer attitude on user innovation. Specifically, this study focuses ontwo aspects of the user … innovation evaluation:quality and quantity. Quality of user innovation in particular has the potentialtocontribute tothe …

innovation development …