TY - JOUR

T1 - The freedom-fighters

T2 - How incumbent corporations are attemting to control user-innovation

AU - Braun, Viktor

AU - Herstatt, Cornelius

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - Novel information and communication technologies, foremost the Internet, have revolutionised the innovation landscape. Mass-collaboration involving end-users is now, a critical component of many types of software improvement and has the potential to make users as the main innovation source of the 21st century. The vision of democratising innovation is not, however, in everybody's interest. Many incumbent corporations are actively engaging in efforts to prevent users from modifying and improving their products. In this paper, we investigate the barriers that incumbents impose upon potentially innovative users and ask under which conditions such behaviours are likely to be sustainable.

AB - Novel information and communication technologies, foremost the Internet, have revolutionised the innovation landscape. Mass-collaboration involving end-users is now, a critical component of many types of software improvement and has the potential to make users as the main innovation source of the 21st century. The vision of democratising innovation is not, however, in everybody's interest. Many incumbent corporations are actively engaging in efforts to prevent users from modifying and improving their products. In this paper, we investigate the barriers that incumbents impose upon potentially innovative users and ask under which conditions such behaviours are likely to be sustainable.

KW - Open-innovation

KW - Sources of innovation

KW - User-innovation

KW - Management studies

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=53349144597&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1142/S1363919608002059

DO - 10.1142/S1363919608002059

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:53349144597

VL - 12

SP - 543

EP - 572

JO - International Journal of Innovation Management

JF - International Journal of Innovation Management

SN - 1363-9196

IS - 3

ER -