The user dominated technology era: Dynamics of dispersed peer-innovation

Hyysalo, Sampsa; Usenyuk, Svetlana

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2015.01.002

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“…Further, income is a positive predictor for being a user-innovator. This finding hints at the fact that user innovation activities in the field of complex technologies are costly and require a certain degree of financial resources, although user-innovators generally rely on inexpensive, home-made solutions [14,24,52]. In the second step, we determined the reason why users innovate for themselves, included technology-related factors, and considered the context of the innovation activities.…”

Section: Motives Of German User-innovators In Complex Energy Technolomentioning

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How User-Innovators Pave the Way for a Sustainable Energy Future: A Study among German Energy Enthusiasts

Grosse

2018

Sustainability

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The existence of user-innovators in the household sector is undeniable. Prior research provided evidence on the vast scope of product developments by household sector users and documented a large set of individual user-innovator characteristics to explain their behavior. What has largely been neglected as a potential source of user innovation activities are product- and technology-specific factors. This study aims to fill this gap by identifying and analyzing user-innovators in Germany. On the basis of the results of a large-scale survey on German energy enthusiasts, we find dissatisfaction with existing products and time-consuming implementation as the main drivers of user innovation in our setting. The results show a negative correlation between data security concerns and the likelihood of becoming a user-innovator, pointing towards the maker culture among user-innovators. As an implication of our work, we provide a roadmap for all stakeholders aiming to harness the potential of user-innovators for future open innovation eco-systems.

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Section: Motives Of German User-innovators In Complex Energy Technolomentioning

confidence: 99%

How User-Innovators Pave the Way for a Sustainable Energy Future: A Study among German Energy Enthusiasts

Grosse

2018

Sustainability

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“…Recently Hyssalo, Ussenyuk y Whalen have introduced a geographical element in the study of user-driven innovation, researching transportation in the Russian North (Usenyuk, Svetlana; Whalen, Jack; Hyysalo 2016) exploring how non-coordinated actors without the presence of arenas of interaction can produce complex pieces of technology, dominating all aspects of the machines, despite attempts by manufacturers to take over. Technological innovation in the WoD, share some characteristics of the dispersed peer innovation as discussed by Hyssalo and Usenyuk (2015).…”

Section: Of Outlaw Users Cartels and Networkmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…As evidenced by the captured from 1993 until 2016, both in the open sea or in the construction phase in the makeshift shipyards demonstrate a broad combination of materials, different designs, and building techniques indicating various approaches preferred by disconnected groups of drug smugglers to solve a common problem, namely, the transportation of bulk amounts of cocaine. Narcosub designers benefit from the pattern of dispersed peer innovation (Hyysalo and Usenyuk 2015), in which the design and construction of these vessels, not being bound by standardized procedures, profit from the possibilities of creating their designs with high degrees of flexibility when exploring the different aspects of the "techno-meme." Those involved in the process of antagonist innovation can mix locally-available knowledge of traditional boat building with off-the-shelf technologies.…”

Section: The Evolution Of the Narcosubsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Antagonist Innovation: technologies, practices and innovation in the War on Drugs

Guerrero-Castro¹

2019

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Since the early 1990s, maritime routes are the primary method used by Colombian smugglers to transport illicit drugs to consumer or transshipment countries. Smugglers have developed their kind of artifacts, the narcosubs. The Colombian Navy has adopted several strategies and adapted several technologies in their attempt to control the flows of illicit drugs. In the so-called War on Drugs (WoD), law enforcement, military, and drug smugglers have engaged in the production, modification, and maintenance of technological artifacts. Based on documentary material, observations and interviews I present the process of innovation by antagonism in the War on Drugs in Colombia. I present an overview of the co-evolution of drug trafficking technologies and the techniques and technologies used by the Colombian Navy to counter the activities of drug smugglers. I emphasize on the process of self-building artifacts by smugglers, explained as a bricolage of local knowledge of traditional boat building with off-the-shelf technologies and in the localized character of the responses by the Navy personnel. Explanations aiming to account for the process of innovation in outlaw contexts in which antagonistic relationships shape the actions of players must take into account the paradoxical and symbiotic relationship between players in the two sides

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“…Such needs may not be recognized by producers (von Hippel, 1986), they may be too heterogeneous to cater to (e.g. Hyysalo & Usenyuk, 2015;Franke & von Hippel, 2002), or the knowledge required to solve them may be so tacit and hence costly to transfer that it cannot be solved effectively by non-users (von Hippel, 1994). For this reason, users may focus more on novel functionalities than on dimension-of-merit improvements when innovating (von Hippel, 1976;Riggs & von Hippel, 1994).…”

Section: Innovation By Employees and Usersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Informal Innovation: A Hidden Source of Improvement in Work and Organizations

Hartmann

2015

SSRN Journal

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Informal innovation, defined as the development and putting-into-use of novel solutions by non-R&D employees without prior formal approval from or subsequent revealing to superiors, has been recurrently observed in organizational research. But even as it is increasingly recognized that R&D is not the only plausible source of innovation inside organizations, informal innovation has yet to be systematically explored or theorized. We propose a theory of informal innovation based on analyses of prior literature and mixed-method, multi-site studies of innovation at the working level of two extreme-case organizations. We propose that informal innovation occurs as 1) employees personally experience problems that they believe are not recognized or prioritized by superiors; 2) some employees are able to develop solutions, essentially at no cost; 3) innovators face no benefits from revealing to superiors, but can share with peers with no or little effort. In the short term, informal innovation is likely to contribute to local improvements in efficiency and quality of work. In the long term, informality may lead to inefficient and undesirable use of innovations. It may also produce increased intransparency, creating a need for further informal innovation. We discuss the generalizability of these findings and implications for research and managerial practice. Word count: 12,362We are grateful to Eric and Jessie

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The user dominated technology era: Dynamics of dispersed peer-innovation

Cited by 44 publications

References 35 publications

How User-Innovators Pave the Way for a Sustainable Energy Future: A Study among German Energy Enthusiasts

How User-Innovators Pave the Way for a Sustainable Energy Future: A Study among German Energy Enthusiasts

Antagonist Innovation: technologies, practices and innovation in the War on Drugs

Informal Innovation: A Hidden Source of Improvement in Work and Organizations

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