TY - CHAP

T1 - Barriers to user-innovation

T2 - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology, ICMIT 2006

AU - Braun, Viktor

AU - Herstatt, Cornelius

PY - 2006

Y1 - 2006

N2 - User-innovation has in recent years been indentified as an important economic phenomenon. While the flourishing research into this area has highlighted the role that users can play in generating innovations, a study of the barriers that these have to overcome for this purpose has so far been lacking. In this paper we will attempt to fill this gap by discussing various factors that can prevent users from being able to innovate. It is argued that such barriers are progressing, potentially indicating that a paradigm change may be imminent.

AB - User-innovation has in recent years been indentified as an important economic phenomenon. While the flourishing research into this area has highlighted the role that users can play in generating innovations, a study of the barriers that these have to overcome for this purpose has so far been lacking. In this paper we will attempt to fill this gap by discussing various factors that can prevent users from being able to innovate. It is argued that such barriers are progressing, potentially indicating that a paradigm change may be imminent.

KW - Management studies

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34249741677&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262258

DO - 10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262258

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:34249741677

SN - 1424401488

SN - 9781424401482

T3 - ICMIT 2006 Proceedings - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology

SP - 176

EP - 180

BT - ICMIT 2006 Proceedings - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology

PB - IEEE Communications Society

Y2 - 21 June 2006 through 23 June 2006

ER -