User community vs. producer innovation development efficiency: A first empirical study

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 find users in aggregate were approximately 3× more efficient...

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Main Authors: Hienerth, Christoph (Author), von Hippel, Eric A. (Contributor), Berg Jensen, Morten (Author)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2017-05-30T17:23:47Z.
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