In this paper we report upon a first empirical exploration of the relative efficiency of innovation development by … product users vs. product producers. In a study of over 50 years of product innovation in the whitewater kayaking field, we …

incremental versus radical innovation. We develop a theory rooted in classical behavioral economics of reference-building, and … different degrees of innovation in successive musical album releases, by using a multi-attribute musical description of songs … utilized to adopt appropriate innovation rates to tailor-make products that cater to the preference structures of target …

leads to new insights on entry, horizontal product innovation, and price discrimination. …

User innovation contributes significantly to societal advancement, particularly in developing novel products and … contributions to the common good. This paper investigates end-users' perceptions of user innovation, a critical yet underexplored … through semi-structured interviews (n=5) and quantitative research using a 2x3 (User Innovation vs. Producer Innovation …

to perceptually expand an innovation's categorical boundaries and to cast the innovation as emotionally-resonant with the … broadening the organization's innovation practices. We advance a theoretical model that relaxes the assumption that cognitive … that appeal to organizational sentiments and aspirations in innovation adoption …