Developing what customers really need: Involving customers in innovations

Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology, ICMIT

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 777-782

  Weber, Marcel ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Co creation; Co design; Co development; User involvement; User driven innovation

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COBALT COMPOUNDS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; MISSILES; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DESIGN; SALES;

CO-CREATION; CO-DESIGN; CO-DEVELOPMENT; USER INVOLVEMENT; USER-DRIVEN INNOVATION;

INNOVATION;

EID: 56749163917     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654464     Document Type: Conference Paper

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