Commercializing user innovations by vertical diversification: The user-manufacturer innovator

Research Policy

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 244-259

  Block, Jörn H ^a,b,c   Henkel, Joachim ^a,d   Schweisfurth, Tim G ^a   Stiegler, Annika ^a  

^a TUM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study; Commercialization of user innovations; User entrepreneurship; User innovation; Vertical diversification

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; INNOVATION; MARKETING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; CORPORATE STRATEGIES; FOUNDATION ENGINEERING; MANUFACTURING UNITS; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; USER ENTREPRENEURSHIP; USER INNOVATION; VERTICAL DIVERSIFICATION;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84961657940     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2015.09.007     Document Type: Article

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