User-innovators and "local" information: The case of mountain biking

By Christian Lüthje, Cornelius Herstatt, Eric von Hippel. 2005

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Comparing Business and Household Sector Innovation in Consumer Products: Findings from a Representative Study in the United Kingdom (2012, background): “For example, in the case of mountain biking, innovators tended to have a better knowledge of how bikes work and how to repair them than did non-innovators (Lüthje et al. 2005).”
User entrepreneurs' multiple identities and crowdfunding performance: Effects through product innovativeness, perceived passion, and need similarity (2019, unknown): “They are also knowledgeable of potential solutions (Lüthje et al., 2005).”
Summary for Policymakers (2022, unknown): “Traditional end-user innovation literature especially discusses this kind of end-user integration (Enkel et al. 2005; Lüthje et al. 2005).”
Under the radar: Industry entry by user entrepreneurs (2010, background): “This finding departs from the literature on user innovation and user entrepreneurship, which assumes users’ stronghold to be their domain of experience, their access to knowledge generated by their practice as users, as well as their network (Luthje et al., 2005; von Hippel, 2007).”
Managing Distributed Innovation: Strategic Utilization of Open and User Innovation (2012, unknown): “Because innovation requires combining knowledge of the user’s need with knowledge of the solution to solve that need (von Hippel, 2005), users play a central role when the local and sticky nature of innovative knowledge makes it difficult or costly to transfer the knowledge (Lüthje et al., 2005; Oga”
BRICOLAGE AS A MEANS OF INNOVATING IN A RESOURCE-SCARCE ENVIRONMENT: A STUDY OF INNOVATOR-ENTREPRENEURS AT THE BOP (2013, background): “Based on this study, knowledge of local needs is not a challenge for local entrepreneurs, indeed local innovator-entrepreneurs are responsive to people’s needs, and this is partly because they obtain ‘local information’ (Luthje et al., 2005).”
Extending Lead User Theory: Antecedents and Consequences of Consumers' Lead Userness (2008, unknown): “Similar percentages were found in the field of printed circuit CAD software (Urban and von Hippel 1988), library information systems (Morrison et al. 2000), mountain biking equipment (Lüthje et al. 2005), and Apache server security software (Franke and von Hippel 2003).”
Handbook of innovation systems and developing countries (2009, background): “Regional innovation systems in developing countries 147 for upgrading and innovation (Castellacci, 2006; Fagerberg, 2004; Lundvall, 1988; Jeppesen and Molin, 2003; Lüthje et al., 2005; Thomke and Von Hippel, 2002).”
Steal my idea! Organizational adoption of user innovations from a user innovation community: A case study of Dell IdeaStorm (2009, background): “Many commercially attractive products that are at the leading edge of marketplace trends stem directly from user innovations [14,15].”
Inside the high-tech black box: A critique of technology entrepreneurship policy (2014, background): “The clear lesson from this is that ‘technology policy’ needs to reduce its emphasis on ‘technology push’ support and become more outwardly oriented or ‘market driven’ by improving the sales and market orientation of these firms, especially in terms of their ability to link with customers and end-use”
User Community vs. Producer Innovation Development Efficiency: A First Empirical Study (2013, result): “Similar results in additional sporting fields were found by Lüthje et al. 2005 (mountain biking); Tietz et al. 2005 and Franke et al. 2006 (kitesurfing), and Raasch et al. 2008 (‘moth’ boat sailing).”
The Value of Crowdsourcing: Can Users Really Compete with Professionals in Generating New Product Ideas? (2012, background): “If knowledge-based entry barriers are low and/or the knowledge needed to come up with successful ideas is closely linked to aspects of user experience—as in our case of feeding babies—users might be more successful (Baldwin et al., 2006; Lettl, Herstatt, and Gemünden, 2006; Lüthje et al., 2005).”