The 7th annual user innovation workshop is being held at the University of Hamburg and the Hamburg University of Technology. It is hosted by Christina Raasch, Christian Lüthje, Christoph Stockstrom, and Cornelius Herstatt of TUHH and co-sponsored by the Kühne School of Logistics.

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

Summary

A total of 26 research papers were scheduled to be presented over the course of two days, in addition to 51 in progress papers.

	Status
Topic	Completed Projects	In Progress	Total
Lead User and User Innovation	12	11	23
User Entrepreneurship		2	2
Communities	5	7	12
Open Source	8		8
User Innovation and Policy	2	9	11
Free Revealing of IP		4	4
Open Innovation	4	11	15
Total	31	44	75

Lead User and User Innovation

Completed Projects

• Pedro Oliveira and Eric von Hippel. The major role of users in services innovation: An empirical investigation into the sources of financial services
• Florian Skiba and Cornelius Herstatt. Service users as sources for innovation
• Jochen Runde and Phil Faulkner. On The Identity Of Technological Objects And User Innovations In Function
• Christina Raasch and Cornelius Herstatt. Influencing user innovation activities – A microeconomic perspective and model
• Sheryl Winston Smith. From Innovation to Market in the Medical Device Industry: The Relationship Between External Entrepreneurial Clinicians and Internal R&D
• Barbara Fuchs. Corporate venturing of lead user generated product concepts
• Nikolaus Franke and Christopher Hader. Too dumb to individualize? The Effect of Toolkit Use on Preference Insight
• Frank Steiner. User Acceptance of Embedded Toolkits in Passenger Cars
• Johann Füller, Thomas Kohler, Daniel Stieger and Kurt Matzler. Avatar Based Innovation: How Avatars Experience Co-Creation Projects in Second Life
• Jing Zheng and Mark Jakiela. An Open Collaborative Prototyping / Manufacturing Experiment in Mechanical Engineering Design: a Step that Attempted to Complete the Open Product Design and Development Process Cycle
• Christoph Fuchs, Emanuela Prandelli and Martin Schreier. Market Research-Based Versus Customer-Based Selection Of Product Opportunities
• Gloria Sánchez-González and Liliiana Herrera. Innovation With Users From An Integrated And Geographical Viewpoint

In Progress

• Jacob Høj Jørgensen. Hubs and Hermits - Identifying Potential Hermit Lead Users Through the Use of Lead User Hubs
• Christoph Stockstrom, Yun Mi Antorini, Christian Lüthje. User generated techniques – the neglected side of user innovation.
• Stephane Lhuillery and Karine Lamiraud. User innovation in the medical imaging devices: the CT scanner case
• Susanne Roiser. In Search of Radically New Ideas in Low/No Tech Fields
• Julia Bauer, Christopher Hader and Nikolaus Franke. User innovation in services – does it exist, does it matter, how can we benefit? A Research Agenda
• Alexander Vossen. Using open innovation methods to integrate external knowledge into new service development
• Johann Füller, Katja Hutter and Rita Faullant. Co-Creation Experience and its Impact on Users ’ Creative Contribution
• Christoph Ihl. The Formation of User Expectations and Preferences in the Context of Mass Customization Toolkits
• Peter Vandor and Thomas Funke. Complementing toolkits for user innovation with horizontal user networks
• Sandra Silvertant. Idea competition - A method to generate creative ideas and identify lead users (The case of food and beverage industry)
• Hidehiko Nishikawa and Susumu Ogawa. Performance Assessment of the Mass-Collaboration Idea-Generation Process for New Product Development: Evidence from the MUJI project

User Entrepreneurship

In Progress

• Tim Schweisfurth, Christina Raasch and Cornelius Herstatt. The emergence of user entrepreneurship: Preconditions and triggers
• Rognvaldur Saemundsson and Eric von Hippel. Entrepreneurship by medical user-innovators: The case of sleep diagnostics and therapy equipment

Communities

Completed Projects

• Rebecca Ermecke, Philip Mayrhofer and Stefan Wagner. The Origns and Consequences of Social Influence on the Diffusion of Applications on Platforms.
• Lars Janzik, Cornelius Herstatt and Antje-Christina Raasch. Motivation in innovative online communities: Why join, why innovate and why contribute?
• Morten Berg Jensen, Christoph Hienerth and Christopher Lettl. The virtual fingerprint of impactful user designers: An empirical study within the LEGO user community
• Paris Chrysos. Non engaging innovation environments. The case of collaborative innovation mode used by new technologies start-ups in the region of Paris.
• Peter Jäger, Stefan Haefliger and Georg von Krogh. Emergent Specialization in a Large Online Customer Community: The Case of Rooster Teeth Productions

In Progress

• Olga Sasinovskaya. The Role of Innovation Communities in New Product Development’ within VINNOVA project on “Open and Distributed Innovation processes ”
• Pradeep Kumar Ponnamma Divakaran. Exploring the Capability of Online Communities to Solve Core Problems in New Product Development
• Katharina Braun and Philipp Türtscher. Innovative User Communities: Which Factors Influence Feedback Quality and Quantity on a Posted Idea?
• Philip Mayrhofer. The impact of market environment and competition on the success of developers on platforms
• Thomas Funke and Peter Vandor. Manufacturer – User-Community Wars
• Andrew Torrance and Eric Von Hippel. Economics of Infant Commons
• Fredrik Häglund. Managing User Induced Development of Network Technologies

Open Source

Completed Projects

• Viktor Lee, Cornelius Herstatt, Christina Raasch. Open source product development - a bibliographical analysis
• Gaston Llanes and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell. Mixed Source
• George Kuk. Towards a critical mass theory of open source software maintenance
• Sheen S. Levine and Wayne E. Baker. Why Do They Contribute? Empirical Investigation into the Emergence of Generalized Exchange
• Johnny Chan and Kenneth Husted. Knowledge Governance in Open Source Software Firms
• Georg von Krogh, Sebastian Spaeth and Matthias Stuermer. ”The credible sponsor”: Participant motivation and firm attributes in collaborative innovation
• Sheen S. Levine and Michael J. Prietula. The Behavioral Basis of Open Innovation: A Modelling Approach
• Kerstin Balka, Christina Raasch and Cornelius Herstatt. Open Source beyond software: An empirical investigation of the open design phenomenon

User Innovation and Policy

Completed Projects

• Susan Schaan and Mark Uhrbach. Measuring user innovation in Canadian Manufacturing, 2007
• Max Rolfstam. Public Procurement as User Innovation - How Can Theory Inform Practice?

In Progress

• Jeroen de Jong and Eric von Hippel. Statistical indicators to inform policies for user innovation
• Barbara Fuchs, Martin Wörter and Spyridon Arvanitis. User innovation and innovation performance in a small state
• Stephen Flowers, Eric von Hippel, Jeroen de Jong and Tanja Sinozic. Measuring User-led Innovation in the UK
• Youngbae Kim. User Innovation Survey in Korea:A Follow-up study of 2008 KIS
• Jeroen de Jong and Susan Schaan. Spill-overs from user innovation in Canadian manufacturing
• Georgina Voss. User Innovation and Policy: new directions for research
• Kritinee Pongtanalert. A Study of Danish Industrial Policy on User Innovation
• Dennis Hilgers. Open Innovation for Government – Citizensourcing and beyond
• Eric von Hippel and Frank Piller. Benefits from manufacturing physical products at the point of use

Free Revealing of IP

In Progress

• Peter Meyer. Sources of the airplane industry
• Victoria Stodden. Opening the Black Box: Free Revealing in the 'Republic of Science'
• Lars Frederiksen and Oliver Alexy. The emergence and evolution of ‘knowing communities ’: The case of the user innovation research community
• Oliver Alexy. Patent Donations – Rational, realization, and rewards

Open Innovation

Completed Projects

• Marion Poetz, Reinhard Prügl and Christian Fabsich. Systematic identification of problem solvers from analogous markets: an empirical exploration of the potential of the search method ‘Pyramiding’
• Oliver Alexy and Gerard George. Placing a value on openness
• Julien Pénin. Open source innovation: Rethinking the concept of openness in innovation studies
• Joel West and Marcel Bogers. Open, User and Cumulative Innovation

In Progress

• Philipp Tuertscher. Mapping the Field of Open and User Innovation
• Kathleen Diener. Finding the Truth behind Open Innovation
• Katharina Hoelzle and Hans Georg Gemuenden. Cultural vs. Structural Aspects of Open Innovation – How to Implement Open Innovation
• David Antons. New product development: The Product Architecture as an opportunity to handle heterogeneous consumer need? – A Simulation of different Product Architectures to investigate their economic value as a function of various market structures
• Meysam Zolfaghari and Ghaderi Homam. Open Innovation in SMEs from Business Models and Strategic SMEs Networks Perspectives
• Jan Rollof and Jens Sörvik. Study on Open innovation
• Kleber Celadon. Knowledge Integration in “Closed” and “Open” Innovation networks:
• Ayfer Ali. Translational Research: Inventor’s Clinicall Background and Speed of Technology Licensing from Academic Medical Centers
• Carsten Bergenholtz. How to exploit and explore weak ties in the biotechnological field
• Alexander Schroll. Empirical Evaluation of the Open Innovation Approach: Linking Firm, Market and Leader Characteristics to Open Innovation Adoption.
• Peter Keinz and Reinhard Prügl. Systematically Leveraging Technological Competences To New Markets: A User Community-Based Approach