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Christoph Hienerth
Researcher at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
Publications - 30
Citations - 2061
Christoph Hienerth is an academic researcher from WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. The author has contributed to research in topics: User innovation & Lead user. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 30 publications receiving 1863 citations. Previous affiliations of Christoph Hienerth include Copenhagen Business School & Vienna University of Economics and Business.
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How User Innovations Become Commercial Products: A Theoretical Investigation and Case Study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors model the pathways commonly traversed as user innovations are transformed into commercial products and test the model against the history of the rodeo kayak industry and find it supported.
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The commercialization of user innovations: the development of the rodeo kayak industry
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the commercialization process of user innovations in open communities and trace 16 cases of user innovators who have commercialized their own innovations or have been involved in the commercialisation process to some extent.
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Exploring the Nature and Implementation Process of User-Centric Business Models
TL;DR: It is found that the successful implementation of user-centric business models requires a comprehensive approach encompassing not only an appropriate social softwaredesign, but also a transparent intellectual property policy, proper incentive systems, evolutional learning and nurturing as well as employee empowerment.
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Synergies among Producer Firms, Lead Users, and User Communities: The Case of the LEGO Producer–User Ecosystem†
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of the producer-user ecosystem of the firm LEGO is analyzed, and three main actors in the ecosystem are identified: entrepreneurial lead users who aim to start their own businesses, a vibrant user community, and the LEGO company as the focal producer firm and facilitator for multiple user-to-user and userto-producer interactions.
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User Community vs. Producer Innovation Development Efficiency: A First Empirical Study
TL;DR: In this article, the relative efficiency of innovation development by product users vs. product producers was investigated in the field of whitewater kayaking and it was found that users in aggregate were approximately 3X more efficient at developing important kayaking product innovations than were producers in aggregate.