PARTICIPATORY INNOVATION

Jacob Buur () and Ben Matthews ()
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Jacob Buur: SPIRE Centre, Mads Clausen Institute for Product Innovation, University of Southern Denmark, Alsion 2, 6400 Sønderborg, Denmark
Ben Matthews: SPIRE Centre, Mads Clausen Institute for Product Innovation, University of Southern Denmark, Alsion 2, 6400 Sønderborg, Denmark

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2008, vol. 12, issue 03, 255-273

Abstract: An increasing number of corporations engage with users inco-innovationof products and services. But there are a number of competing perspectives on how best to integrate these understandings into existing corporate innovation development processes. This paper maps out three of the dominant approaches, compares them in terms of goals, methods and basic philosophy, and shows how they may beneficially enrich one another. We will present an industrial innovation case that has been instrumental to the development of what we have termed "Participatory Innovation". Based on this, we will list the challenges such an approach sets to innovation management, and discuss research directions of what we see as fundamental to the development of the field ofuser-driveninnovation.

Keywords: User-driven innovation; participatory design; design anthropology; lead-users; co-design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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