Wissenschaftliche Literatur Innovation Marketing

Mareike Elisabeth Hinsch

User Innovation in Techniques

Empirical Studies in the Medical Devices Industry

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Techniques, i.e. systematic activities to accomplish a complex task, play an important role in innovation as they often are a prerequisite for the development of new products or increase the benefit drawn from already existing products. Users are a primary source of new techniques. Even though user-generated techniques are a pervasive phenomenon which can be observed in many different contexts, existing research on user innovation has focused on product and service…

Bernd Kadura, Joachim Langbein, Kerstin Wilde

Strengthening Innovation Systems

Foundation, Concept and Strategic Approach

Wirtschaftspolitik in Forschung und Praxis

Strengthening innovation systems is of prime importance for sustained competitiveness of countries and regions in an increasingly knowledge-based global economy.

This does not only apply to industrialised countries, but holds true for emerging economies and developing countries as well. This manual provides policy makers, policy shapers and implementing agencies with guidance for the systematic analysis of deficiencies and synergy potentials within the…

Lydia Eva-Maria Todenhöfer

Participation Patterns of Sharing Systems

A Cross-Sectoral Comparison of the Drivers of Demand and Supply in the Sharing Economy

MERKUR – Schriften zum Innovativen Marketing-Management

In recent years, the sharing economy has evolved into a mass phenomenon that now alters the daily routine of millions of users and influences both consumption behaviour and market dynamics. At the same time academic and practical knowledge of how to successfully design, launch and run a sharing economy business is noticeably failing to keep pace with the demands that the sector requires.

In this context, Lydia Eva-Maria Todenhöfer investigates the crucial…

Larissa Viola Hammon

Crowdsourcing – Eine Analyse der Antriebskräfte innerhalb der Crowd

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Der enorme Bedeutungszuwachs des Mediums Internet für unseren Alltag hat zur Herausbildung des Phänomens Crowdsourcing beigetragen, welches die Auslagerung von Tätigkeiten an die online agierende Crowd beschreibt. Seit seiner ersten Erwähnung im Jahr 2006 wird die Masse immer öfter und auf verschiedenste Art und Weise zum Macher gemacht. Dabei leistet sie zum Teil einen kleinen, aber nicht selten auch einen erheblichen Beitrag zur Wertschöpfung von…