Role of community in user innovation generation and diffusion-Focusing on non-brand communities in the mountain climbing market

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 88, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-15

  Yoshida, Daichi ^a   Miyazawa, Jun ichi ^a   Takahashi, Shingo ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agent based social simulation; Community; User innovation

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; MANUFACTURE;

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; AGENT-BASED SOCIAL SIMULATIONS; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY IS; MANUFACTURING FIRMS; MOUNTAIN-CLIMBING; USER INNOVATION; WORLD MARKET;

DIFFUSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INNOVATION; MANUFACTURING; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84903881245     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.06.013     Document Type: Article

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