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User-centered Innovation: towards a Conceptual Integration of Lead Users and Living Labs
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Schuurman, Dimitri Marez, Lieven De |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | Within the current approaches towards innovation research the role of the user or consumer is increasingly emphasized, giving momentum to user-centered research methodologies. Two research concepts occur at the forefront of this evolution: the ‘lead user’-concept and the ‘living lab’-concept. Both have already received a lot of academic attention, resulting in an impressive corpus of literature and interesting implementations. However, up till now, living labs and lead users are rarely studied together in an integrative research approach, as proven by their largely distinct literature and advocates. By means of a literature review and a SWOT-analysis of both concepts and their associated methods, this paper wants to explore the (in)compatibility of these two approaches for user-centered innovation research, and propose some guidelines and conceptual ideas to integrate them. This is driven by the feeling that both concepts share a lot of common ground and that a conceptual integration should further stimulate knowledge into innovation practices and processes involving the user, especially in the field of ICT and in the light of the trend towards open and contextual innovation. |
| Starting Page | 114 |
| Ending Page | 123 |
| Page Count | 10 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dimitri_Schuurman/publication/228341629_User-Centered_Innovation_Towards_a_Conceptual_Integration_of_Lead_Users_and_Living_Labs/links/0fcfd51430f9641af3000000.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
