How User Innovations Become Commercial Products: A Theoretical Investigation and Case Study

By Carliss Y. Baldwin, Christoph Hienerth, Eric von Hippel. 2006

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Strategy and Management

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Open R&D and open innovation: exploring the phenomenon (2009, background): “Therefore, companies will not only face competition from other peers but from the empowered user himself (Baldwin et al., 2006).”
Pretrained AI Models: Performativity, Mobility, and Change (2019, background): “Contrarily, users pursue innovations to do functionally new things without strong concern for the fraction of the market that may be interested, since they are self-rewarded through intrinsic motivations [6, 92].”
Perspectives on Innovation Processes (2013, background): “For example, a surgeon may develop and experiment with a new medical device (Lettl, Herstatt, & Gemuenden, 2006), or members of a sporting community may improve their equipment so they are better able to perform their activities (Baldwin et al., 2006).”
Managing Distributed Innovation: Strategic Utilization of Open and User Innovation (2012, neutral): “In other cases, the external parties may supply innovations, which are then used or commercialized by firms (e.g., Baldwin et al., 2006; Chesbrough, 2003a; von Hippel, 2007).”
The Dynamics of Open Strategy: From Adoption to Reversion (2017, neutral): “In the Open e Open cell, the user-innovators capture a share of the returns from both increased producer and consumer surplus because they are not only the crea-tors but also typically the consumers of the output (Baldwin and von Hippel, 2011; Baldwin et al., 2006; Swann, 2014).”
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).”
Comparing Business and Household Sector Innovation in Consumer Products: Findings from a Representative Study in the United Kingdom (2012, background): “example, if they are individuals competing in a sport (Franke and Shah 2003; Baldwin et al. 2006).”
Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle (2012, neutral): “31 Often, user entrepreneurship involves the introduction of radically new technology and, in some cases, the creation of entirely new industries (Baldwin et al., 2006; Tripsas, 2008).”