The 8th annual user innovation workshop is being held at MIT at the Sloan School of Management. It is hosted by Eric von Hippel, Erin Carlson and Benjamin Mako Hill. The official conference web page is on the MIT website.

Below are the scheduled papers; see also the Open Innovation blog for summaries of some of the major topics.

Summary

A total of 61 research papers were scheduled to be presented over the course of two and a half days, in addition to 63 research updates (short papers). That compares to 31 and 44 at the June 2009 conference in Hamburg.

Category	Long Papers	Research Updates	Total
Communities	6	12	18
Crowdsourcing	4	8	12
Motivation	6	8	14
Open Source	7	3	10
Measurement	3	1	4
Lead Users	2	3	5
Law, Policy, Norms	8	8	16
Open Innovation	5	3	8
Platforms	2		2
Firms and Users	9	11	20
Product Development	5	2	7
Services and Techniques	4		4
Entrepreneurs		4	4
Total	61	63	124

Communities

Long Papers (L01)

• Albert Muniz: How Brand Community Practices Creates Value
• Johann Fueller: Communitition: The Tension Between Competition and Collaboration in Community Based Design Contests
• Lars Frederiksen: Position and Performance in Open Innovation Communities
• Peter B. Meyer: Communication and Imitation Among Early Aeronautical Innovators, 1800-1910
• Pradeep Kumar Ponnamma Divakaran: Understanding Pre-Release User Activities and It’s Antecedents in Online Communities: A Netnographic Approach
• Antti Ainamo: Coevolution of Technology Platforms and Application Development: A Historical and Comparitive Study of Ecosystems in the Cases of Linux, Apple and Nokia

Research Updates (S05)

• Julia Mueller: Sense of Virtual Community (SOVC) - A Pre Study
• Quang "Neo" Bui: Overview of the Innovation Governance Framework in Open/User Innovation Community
• Poul Houman Andersen: Designing Organizational Participation in Innovation Communities
• Nitin Mayande: Business Models, Governance Structure and Network Structure in Virtual Communities
• Søren Salomo: The Governance and Design of Collaborative User-Driven Innovation Platforms
• Antti Ainamo: Children as User Innovators and as Creators: Notes from a Virtual World

Research Updates: Beyond Traditional Communities (S10)

• Joel West: Open Source in K-12
• Peter Mirski: Silver Innovation
• Vanita Yadav: User Innovation@Grassroots
• Jinwoo Kim: UX Innovation: A Positive Loop of Co-creation
• Jiye Baek: Creating New Medical Insurance Services: Innovative Medical Reform through Storytelling
• Sang Yun Cha: Donation Innovation: Utilizing Isomorphic Social Games for User Sustainability and Innovation in Social Enterprises

Crowdsourcing

Long Papers (L02)

• Karim Lakhani: Open Innovation Institutions as Governance or Selection Mechanisms? Evidence From a Field Experiment on a NASA Space Life Science Problem
• Andrei Villarroel: Intra-Corporate Crowdsourcing: Leveraging Upon Rank and Site Marginality for Innovation
• Hind Benbya: Internal Knowledge Markets
• Dominic Mahr: Creativity Versus Deliberateness: The Routines of Successful External Problem Solvers

Research Updates (S07)

• Nik Franke: Communities
• Leid Zejnilovic: Empowering Users to Innovate: Implications for Organizational and Innovation Policy in ICT sector
• Christopher Tucci: Crowdsourcees in Emerging vs Industrialized Countries
• Christian Catalini: The Geography of Crowdfunding
• Luis Pestana Mour‹o: Crowdsourcing Innovation: A Proposal for Intervention in SMEs
• Lars Bo Jeppesen: Complimentary Complements? Two-sided Markets with Free Goods and Suppliers Who Don't Get Paid

Research Updates: Contests (S08)

• Susanne Roiser: The Architecture of Crowdsourcing Competitions: Critical Variables Associated with High Idea Performance
• Kathrin M. Moeslein: Community-Based Innovation Contests: When Cooperation Meets Competition

Motivation

Long Papers (L03)

• Lars Janzik: Motivation in Online Communities
• Benjamin Mako Hill: Measuring the Effect of a New Reputation-Based Incentive in an Online Remixing Community
• Alexander Vossen: Motivations of Organizational Participation Behavior in Idea Contests
• Christoph Fuchs: Why Participation in Direct Democratic Initiatives Renders Procedural Utility: Experimental Evidence From a Market Context
• Oded Nov: The Motivational Infrastructure of Online Citizen Science
• Sheen S. Levine: Where and When Can Open Collaborative Innovation Thrive? A Theory of Performance

Research Updates (S06)

• Irina Cojuharenco: On Personality Correlates of User Innovation
• Julia Hautz: Where Do the Great Ideas Evolve: Exploring the Relationship Between Network Position and Idea Quality
• Katja Hutter: What Motivates and Hinders Employees to Engage in Internal Innovation Communities?
• Daniel Ehls: Open Content Community Participation and Social Capital
• Christian LŸthje: The Role of Motivation and Knowledge Diversity in Open Innovation Platforms
• Sheen S. Levine: Contributions to Open & User Innovation Stem from Four Mechanisms of Generalized Exchange
• Dietmar Harhoff: Invention Processes
• Andreea Gorbatai: Failures of Social Production: Evidence from Wikipedia

Open Source Software

Long Papers (L04)

• Maha Shaikh: Collaborative Innovation: Company Perspective on Community Contribution
• Francesco Rentocchini: Is Open Source About Innovation? Effects of the Interactions with the OS Community on Firms’ Innovative Performance
• Ethan Mollick: Filthy Lucre: Free Software, Entrepreneurship and Market Opportunity
• Stoyan Tanev: Value Co-Creation: Lessons From Firms Engaged in Open Source Projects
• Lorenzo Benussi: How the Open Source Model Adapts to the Cloud Computing Environment: The InterCloud Exchange
• Mario Schaarschmidt: Linking Firm-Affiliation, Network-Embeddedness, and Technical Contribution in Open Innovation Communities
• George Kuk: Corporatizing Open Source Software Innovation

Research Updates (S03)

• Sebastian Spaeth: How Does Firm Participation Affect OSS Performance?
• Paris Chrysos: Web 2.0 VS Open Source Software: Does More Openness Lead to Higher Problem-Solving Performance?
• Linus Nyman: A Research Plan for an OS Study on Strategic Management

Measurement

Long Papers (L05)

• Jeroen de Jong: Comparing User and Producer Innovations in High-Tech SMEs
• Mikko Laine: Open and User Innovation in the Finnish Software Industry
• Youngbae Kim: User Innovation in Korea: Incidence and Protection

Research Updates (L05)

• Susumu Ogawa: Global Innovation Survey in Japan at the Consumer Level

Lead Users

Long Papers (L06)

• Wenke Baumbach: Identifying Lead Users with Netnography: An Online Study in a High-Tech and High-Involvement Area
• Steve Flowers: Super-Users, Users and Operators: Exploring the User Innovation Landscape in a Healthcare Technology

Research Updates (S09)

• Hidehiko Nishikawa: Making Distinction Between Posting people (Lead Users) and Checking People: Not Posting but Checking has Great Impact on Sales Performance.
• Rene Chester Goduscheit: The Role of Promoters in User Innovation Projects - Transfer of Insight from the User to the Business Domain
• Wenke Baumbach: Extending Lead User Theory: The Context of Radical Sustainability Innovations

Law, Policy, Norms

Long Papers (L07)

• Giada Di Stefano: Kitchen Confidential? Knowledge Transfer and Social Norms in Gourmand Cuisine
• Joachim Henkel: License Risks in Open Innovation
• Wen Wen: The Impact of Intellectual Property Enforcement on Open Source Software Adoption
• Andrew W. Torrance: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Innovation: One Experimental View of the Patent Cathedral
• Wendy Seltzer: Chilling Effects of Intermediary Liability
• Fiona Murray and Scott Stern: Of Mice and Academics: The Impact of Openness on Innovation
• Kritinee Pongtanalert: The study of Danish Innovation Policy on User-Driven Innovation
• Jim Bessen: The Two Faces of Technical Knowledge

Research Updates; Norms (S01)

• Christina Raasch: Open Source Innovation: A Study of Openness and Community Expectations
• Christine Moser: A Piece of Cake: How Social Norms Govern Self-Organization in the Community of Dutch Cake Bakers
• Julia Bauer: Norms-based IP systems in creative industries - A Research Agenda

Research Updates: Patents (S02)

• Katherine Strandburg: Patent Fair Use 2.0: A Proposal
• George Kuk: Citation Analysis of Patent Commons
• Heger Attaya: Tolerance of Piracy against Free Software Competition
• Jari Kuusisto: Research with Innovation Policy Makers Making an Impact - At What Price?
• Christiana Iyasere: Medical Procedural Innovation: Sources, Devices and Intellectual Property

Open Innovation

Long Papers (L08)

• Christoph Ihl: Organizing for Open Innovation - The Role of Organizational Design for Successful External Knowledge Search
• David Antons: The “Not-Invented-Here-(NIH)-Syndrome”: Often Mentioned, (nearly) Never Measured
• Soumodip Sarkar: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff- Towards a Taxonomy of Open Innovation
• Wang Pengfei: Reciprocity In Open Innovation Paradigm: The Relationship +Between Outbound-Revealing and Inbound-Sourcing
• Nassim Belbaly: How to Manage Co-opetitive Innovation with Modular Design?

Research Updates (S04)

• Björn Remneland-Wikhamn: Open Innovation Groundwork – A Longitudinal Study at Volvo
• Carsten Bergenholtz: Open Innovation: How Open is Open?
• Meysam Zolfaghari: Open Innovation

Platforms

Long Papers (L09)

• Kevin Boudreau: Open Platform Strategies and Innovation: Granting Access versus Devolving Control
• Chris Forman: Participation in a Platform Ecosystem: Appropriability, Competition, and Access to the Installed Base

Firms and Users

Long Papers (L10)

• Annika Bock: The Commercialization of User Innovations by Established Firms: A Case Study
• Gloria Sanchez Gonzalez: Influence of Cooperation with Users From an Input Perspective
• Ilse Klanner: “Pimping” Perceived Uniqueness - How Toolkit Providers can Increase the Subjective Value of User-Designed Products
• Stephane Lhuillery: The Determinants of User Innovation in Medical Imaging Devices
• Seunghyun Kim: Factors Affecting Successful Innovation by Content-Layer Firms in Korea
• Christopher Hader: Learning by Self-designing: The Effect of Using a Mass Customization Toolkit on Preference Insight
• Emmanuelle Fauchart: Schumpeterians, Communitarians and Missionaries: Exploring the Role of Founder Identity in Entrepreneurship
• Katharina Braun: Feedback-Process Patterns of Online User Communities as Predictors for Market Success of Innovations
• Christian Lüthje: Innovation Outside Firms: Comparing Users and Independent Inventors

Research Update: Firms and Communities (S13)

• Natalia Ryzhkova: Web-Based Customer Innovation
• Jieun Cha: Managing Innovation in Artist-Fan Relationships: The Case of Kidrobot
• Sarah M. G. Otner: Exchange Economies at Work: The Functions of Reputation in Firm-Sponsored Innovation Communities
• Cord Grünewald: Corporate Engagement in Open Design Projects
• Johannes Gebauer: Engaging Innovation Communities – Potential for Conflicts Between Companies and Members of Innovation Communities
• Frank Piller: Improving the Productivity of University-Firm Technology Transfer By Broadcast Search
• HelŽn Anderson: Innovation Communities and New Product Development
• Thomas Funke: Manufacturer-User Community Wars: A Dynamic Perspective on Conflicts Between Companies and User Innovation Communities
• Stefan Perkmann Berger: How Companies can Sustainably use the Creative Potential of User Communities: An Empirical Investigation
• Fred Gault: User Innovation in Manufacturing Firms in Mozambique
• Helle Alsted Sondergaard: Crowdsourcees in Emerging vs Industrialized Countries

Product Development

Full Papers (L11)

• Yutaka Hamaoka: Antecedents and Consequences of User Innovation
• Matt O'Hern: The Impact of User Generated Content on New Product Innovation
• Marcel Bogers: The Role of Openness of R&D, Manufacturing and Marketing in Product and Process Innovation
• Carliss Baldwin and Alan MacCormack: How to Discover the Architecture of Complex Systems
• François Scheid: When Lead Users Design a Modular Platform: The Software Case

Research Updates: Mass Customization (S11)

• Dominik Walcher: The Customization 500
• John Boldt: The Effect of Perceived Control in Mass Customization

Services and Techniques

Full Papers (L12)

• Paul van der Boor: Emergence and Diffusion of Mobile Banking Services in the Developing World.
• Peter Svensson: Evidence of Users’ Influence in Social Innovations: Two Swedish Social-service Case Studies
• Christoph Hienerth: User Innovation in Techniques
• Pedro Oliveira: User Innovation in Services

Entrepreneurs

Research Updates (S12)

• Yu Xin: Democratizing Entrepreneur – From Knowledge Perspective
• Tim Schweisfurth: The Dynamics of User Entrepreneurship: A Case Study and Model
• Sheryl Winston Smith: Entrepreneurial Clinicians and New Medical Device Approval: An Analysis of the Innovation Trajectory from Patent to Market
• Rögnvaldur J. Saemundsson: Entrepreneurship by User-Innovators: How Prevalent Is It and How Do Their Attitudes and Aspirations Differ From Other Entrepreneurs?