User innovation and entrepreneurship: case studies from rural India

Yadav, Vanita; Goyal, Preeti

doi:10.1186/s13731-015-0018-4

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“…Other studies focused on a particular market circumstances in which classical producer innovation could be lacking [38,39] or disenchantment and disinterest among consumers is the reason for slow market diffusion [5]. In these situations, users commonly start to innovate for themselves because local needs are not satisfied by the market [40,41].…”

Section: User Innovation In Complex Technologiesmentioning

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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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: User Innovation In Complex Technologiesmentioning

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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“…Research studies have been so far conducted in India mostly used case studies or storytelling approach. They were more focused toward the concept of social innovation through incubators and government initiatives (Sonne 2012) and towards cases of social entrepreneurs with the mission of rural development (Yadav and Goyal 2015). Selective research studies conducted in India in the field of social entrepreneurship are shown in Table 1.…”

Section: Development Of Social Entrepreneurship In Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

An empirical analysis of the factors affecting social entrepreneurial intentions

2017

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The present study aims at identifying the social entrepreneurial intention among undergraduate students in Indian context by using the theory of planned behaviour as the research framework. A 72 item questionnaire was responded by 390 students of premier technical universities of India. A method of sampling used was systematized random sampling. 69% (N = 269) of the respondents were male and 31% (N = 121) were female and the average age of the respondents was approximately 20 years. The questionnaire measured emotional intelligence, creativity, and moral obligation, attitude toward becoming a social entrepreneur, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control. The result shows that the proposed model in the present study explains 47% of the variance, explaining the social entrepreneurship intention. Creativity showed a strongest positive relationship followed by emotional intelligence. This research study contributes to the social entrepreneurship literature by introducing emotional intelligence and creativity as new antecedents that also explains social entrepreneurial intention formation.

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“…This brings us to identify other growth spots for necessity-based entrepreneurs through external support from extended family, community and mentor networks. Yadav and Goyal (2015) in their study point out that the commercialization of a product is more likely to occur with the help of enabling factors, such as individuals like friends and family and external institutions such as the government and nongovernment organizations, educational institutions, and private sector organizations.…”

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Are Opportunity and Necessity Based Women Entrepreneurs any Different?

Sindhwani

Dhawan

2021

Multidiscip. bus. rev (Impr.)

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The objective of this paper is to explain how necessity-based women entrepreneurs in emerging markets tend to incline more towards survivability, ignoring aspects of growth. While, opportunity-based women entrepreneurs emphasize more on growth, often overlooking survivability. The existing literature has failed to perceive both together, merging opportunity and necessity-based women entrepreneurs in the context of business growth. We aim to address this gap, through the paper and touch upon concepts of enterprise survivability and scalability wherein we discuss a third bracket of entrepreneurship that emerges out of viewing both necessity and opportunity constructs together. The findings suggest that while the motivation behind women pursing necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship may be different in developing regions of the world like Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and East and South Asia, their end points happen to be the same. Both opportunity and necessity-based women entrepreneurs, irrespective of their motivations to start their businesses, struggle with aspects of business growth. Hence, to exploit the potential of women-led ventures, it is significant that we focus on achieving business growth and simultaneously sustain enterprises. While the paper highlights a descriptive research analysis, it also supplements the existing literature on growth drivers for necessity-based entrepreneurs and explores variations in the entrepreneurial process within opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship. This paper provides an insight into how women entrepreneurs can cater to enhancing human development indicators which will have an indirect impact on pushing sustainable development goals in a forward direction.

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User innovation and entrepreneurship: case studies from rural India

Cited by 33 publications

References 34 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

An empirical analysis of the factors affecting social entrepreneurial intentions

Are Opportunity and Necessity Based Women Entrepreneurs any Different?

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