User Innovation Research Articles

Impacts of User Personality Traits on Their Contributions in Idea Implementation: A Moderated Mediation Model.

In the realm of open innovation, users have emerged as a significant external source of innovation that enterprises cannot afford to overlook. Implemented ideas play a pivotal role in driving the iterative innovation of products within enterprises. However, the existing literature still lacks an exploration of specific impact mechanisms on contributions in idea implementation. This study presents a model that delineates the impact of user personality traits on idea implementation contributions, drawing upon theories such as personality trait theory, user engagement perspective, and trait activation theory. Empirical research was carried out by utilizing user data obtained from the Chinese high-tech company Xiaomi's MIUI community. Personality trait indicators were developed through the application of text mining and machine learning techniques. To evaluate the models, a negative binomial regression model, which is well-suited for handling discrete data, was employed. The findings of this study indicate that user openness and conscientiousness positively influence their idea implementation contribution, whereas neuroticism has a negative impact on implementation contribution. Additionally, it is observed that user engagement plays a partial mediating role in the relationship between openness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and idea implementation contribution. Community incentives can positively moderate the impact of user engagement on the relationship between conscientious personality and idea implementation contribution. This study expands the analysis of the impact mechanism of user idea implementation contributions, which has important theoretical guidance and practical implications for accurately identifying leading users in open innovation communities and enhancing user innovation contributions.

Environmental Transformation: A Systematic Literature Review on Green Innovation and Its Key Elements

Green Innovation is rapidly becoming a critical business component for many organizations. Thus, this study aims to examine Green Innovation practice research in the literature. At the same time, this study stresses that the practice of implementing Green Innovation may be used by any firm. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method is utilized for this aim, with 42 out of 125 studies meeting the search criteria. 24 of those studies are concerned with Green Innovation. Based on the findings of the investigations, five variables (green product innovation, green process innovation, green services innovation, green managerial innovation and green marketing innovation) have been highlighted as elements of Green Innovation for organizations. Therefore, this article will serve as a useful guide for firms looking to implement greener technologies through the usage of Green Innovation.

Statement of Removal

The new millennium has marked a dramatic proliferation in the ways by which users are involved in various product, service, space and systems development activities. Particularly digital services and platforms have enabled new kinds of user involvement configurations across time and space. These important changes in the user involvement “landscape” tend to remain unnoticed or misunderstood, owing to no small measure to the blurriness of available method mappings. Building on the critique and conceptual development presented in the part one of this paper, we elaborate a typology of nine approach level user involvement configurations. We further elaborate why the user involvement configurations help make sense of some research/practice areas such as service design, participatory design and user innovation research which all factually span several distinct user involvement configuration types – in effect prompting quite different designer roles and orientations within the same research area.

An Insightful Exploration of Protected Cultivation in Horticultural Crops: A Comprehensive Review

The survey starts by examining various sorts of protected cultivation, encompassing a variety of techniques such as greenhouses, polytunnels, modern nurseries, high passages, and shade houses, as well as their benefits and constraint has emerged as a pivotal component in horticultural practices. It then, at that point, features the significance of protected cultivation in tending to worldwide food security challenges by guaranteeing all year crop creation and decreasing dependence on occasional varieties. This comprehensive review delves into the multifaceted aspects of protected cultivation in horticultural crops, aiming to provide a nuanced understanding of its impact on crop yield, quality, and resource efficiency. The audit further investigates the effect of protected cultivation strategies on the development and advancement of plant crops, including further developed crop morphogenesis, precipitation the board, and the streamlining of natural factors like temperature, moistness, and carbon dioxide levels. Besides, the usage of cutting-edge innovations like aquaculture, aeroponics, and vertical cultivating inside protected cultivation frameworks is inspected, with an accentuation on their true capacity for amplifying crop efficiency while limiting asset utilization. The article synthesizes recent advancements, challenges, and future prospects in this field, shedding light on the dynamic interplay between environmental factors, crop physiology, and technological interventions. By critically evaluating the existing literature, we present a synthesis of knowledge that can inform both researchers and farmers in optimizing protected cultivation for sustainable and resilient horticultural production systems.

Perspectives on UX Practices for American Entrepreneurs: A Survey of User Engagement Approaches to Innovation

This article explores how entrepreneurs engage users in innovation in order to identify collaboration opportunities between entrepreneurship and technical and professional communication (TPC) scholars interested in user experience (UX). This article surveyed American entrepreneurs (N = 100) asking when and how they involve users in product development. The results suggest that most entrepreneurs do engage users to drive innovation and understand their markets, but do so largely through informal means. Our research suggests that UX can serve as a connection point for TPC scholars and entrepreneurs, especially if TPC emphasizes the role of UX in innovation and offers entrepreneurs efficient yet reliable user-research methodologies.

Entrepreneurial universities: Modelling the link between innovation producers and innovation users shows that team structures in the tech transfer function improves performance

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;">To investigate successful technology transfer, the potential path of innovations from the university research bench to the knowledge recipient is modelled. Universities exist in highly regulated environments and the initial path of decision-making is a hierarchical model and where decisions flow upward from manager to manager until a small number of candidate innovations for commercialization remain. These are then routed for further processing to the link connecting to the knowledge recipient, the Technology Transfer Office (TTO). In the TTO, a hierarchical decision-making model can be acceptable in terms of outcomes, but ambidextrous co-operative team structures are much superior in cases where staff have good insight and decision-making abilities. This report represents the first Structured Equation Model investigation of the management architecture of a TTO.</span></p>

Intrinsic self-rewards for participating in household sector user innovation: Lessons from a survey of Chinese residents

Household sector (HHS) user innovation is recognized as a prevalent type of innovation, initiated for personal use and unrelated to pecuniary transactions. Considering its non-pecuniary logic, this study addresses the non-pecuniarily self-driven motivations of HHS user innovation. We explore how altruistic intrinsic self-rewards (ISRs) motivate HHS user innovation by affecting individual relatedness, competence, and autonomy, based on a large-scale survey in China. Furthermore, we incorporate a social facilitation factor, i.e., the partnership (involving partnership size and partnership closeness), and investigate its moderating effects on the relationship between altruistic ISRs and HHS user innovation. The results indicate that individuals participating in HHS user innovation are positively motivated by altruistic ISRs. Besides, the partnership size strengthens the effect of altruistic ISRs on HHS user innovation while the partnership closeness dilutes the effect. By uncovering this motivation antecedent and the social facilitation conditions, this study provides theoretical contributions to and managerial implications for HHS user innovation.

User-centric evaluation of EHR software through NLP-driven investigation: Implications for product development and user experience

In today's rapidly digitising world, organisations often face challenges in achieving successful technology implementation, with low returns on investment and a significant gap between technology utilisation and acceptance. Electronic Health Record (EHR) software provides a comprehensive platform for storing, managing, and gaining access to patient data, enabling healthcare providers to provide high-quality care and make informed decisions. Conducting a comprehensive analysis of EHR software decision-level user reviews can contribute to improving and optimising EHR systems. Incorporating principles of user innovation, the study aims to investigate the significance of online review analysis in product development and reduce the technology acceptance gap. The study employs document-topic theme mining techniques, specifically BERTopic, a topic modelling technique, VADER sentiment analysis, and NRCLex Affect dictionary-based emotion analysis to extract meaningful aspect-based insights from the vast unstructured data of online reviews about EHR software. The study helps healthcare organisations get insights from user perspectives and highlights the importance of user review evaluation in purchasing or switching EHR software. It contributes to the existing literature on software evaluation, software requirement analysis, marketing and positioning strategy analysis, and online user review analysis. In addition to the challenges faced in the healthcare sector, the study recognises that technology transition issues are pervasive across various domains. Common challenges include the need for seamless integration with existing workflows, addressing resistance to change, navigating data security and privacy concerns, and fostering a technology-friendly culture. By exploring these challenges within the context of EHR software, the research contributes valuable insights with broader implications for diverse industries undergoing digital transformation.

Analysis of the Status of Digital Economy in China's Economy

Digital economy is the hot point of the worlds financial and economic system. The combination of usage of financial technologies and innovation of that have a lightly prospect of the financial development. To know about the impact of digital economy on Chinese regional economic promotion, this essay will question two queries: What is the status of digital finance in the past and current China economy? What aspects of risks need to be avoided in developing process of digital economy? It will combine some cases and data in China firstly and then analysis them as well as giving conclusion and suggestion in the end. Finally, this paper gets a conclusion that digital economy will be the important part of not only Chinese economy but also the world economy. In order to build up an excellent environment for that, there are some factors that have to been paid attention to, including personal information leakage, financial fraud, technical unemployment risk, national essential data leakage and market monopoly.

A framework for remotely enabled co-design with young people: its development and application with neurodiverse children and their caregivers.

This paper describes an innovative Framework for Remotely Enabled Co-Design with Young people (FREDY), which details an adaptable four-stage process for generating design concepts with children and other key stakeholders in a naturalistic and inclusive way. Recommendations from existing patient engagement and design methodologies were combined to provide research teams with procedures to capture and analyse end-user requirements rapidly. Resulting insights were applied through iterative design cycles to achieve accelerated and user-driven innovation. Applying this framework with neurodiverse children within the context of healthcare, shows how creative design methods can give rise to new opportunities for co-creating across diverse geographies, abilities, and backgrounds as well as strengthen co-designer approval of the co-design process and resulting product. We summarise key learnings and principles for fostering trust and sustaining participation with remote activities, and facilitating stakeholder design input through continuous collaboration, as well as highlight the potential benefits and challenges of utilising FREDY with neurotypical populations.

User Innovation and Product Stickiness: Evidence from Video Games

User Innovation and Product Stickiness: Evidence from Video Games

Alleviating range anxiety with ‘Enroute’: A real-time mobile solution and infrastructure innovation for electric vehicle users

Amidst the growing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), this study addresses the prominent issue of "range anxiety" encountered by EV users when confronted with critical charging situations during their journeys. The research background emphasises the constraints of the existing charging infrastructure, primarily designed for urban areas, leaving EV drivers susceptible to unforeseen charging emergencies in remote or less-travelled regions. To tackle this challenge, an innovative mobile application that provides a real-time solution by harnessing crowd-sourced data and forging partnerships with charging infrastructure providers was developed. This app assists users in locating available charging stations. It offers the option to book a service that can bring the necessary charging equipment to a specified location (similar to a porter service), ensuring timely assistance. The research methodology involved user surveys and data analysis, specifically emphasising seamless integration with EVs’ onboard systems, making support practical and readily accessible. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of this app in alleviating range anxiety and enhancing EV users’ confidence in long-distance travel. In conclusion, this paper outlines a promising solution to a pressing issue in electric mobility. It underscores the importance of addressing the charging infrastructure gap for the widespread adoption of EVs. The future scope of this research involves further refinement of the app, expanded partnerships with charging networks and Porter service providers, and continued collaboration with EV manufacturers to ensure seamless integration and user satisfaction, ultimately advancing the cause of sustainable transportation.

Managing Generative AI in Firms: The Theory of Shadow User Innovation

Managing Generative AI in Firms: The Theory of Shadow User Innovation

Influence of Social Media Use and Product Innovation on Business Development: A Case Study

The study aims to (1) explain whether or not the use of social media has an influence on the development of the Banjar Bu Machmudah cake business; (2) explain whether product innovation has an influence on the development of the Banjar Bu Machmudah cake business; and (3) explain whether the use of social media and product innovation have an influence on the development of the Banjar Bu Machmudah cake business. This study employs a quantitative method, using multiple linear regression analysis, to explain the impact of social media and product innovation on business development). In this study, the population consisted of all 106 consumers of the Banjar Bu Machmudah cake shop in April 2023. Purposive sampling was utilized, which is a sample technique with specific requirements. Customers who made more than one purchase at the Banjar Bu Machmudah cake shop throughout April were eligible, with 106 people responding. The finding showed that (1) the use of social media has a substantial impact on the business development of Banjar Bu Machmudah cakes., (2) the product Innovation has a big impact on business development in Banjar Bu Machmudah cakes (3) The usage of social media and product innovation has a big impact on business development.

Learning Innovation Utilization in Technical Education: A Quantitative Study

This paper investigated students' perceptions and usage of learning innovations in technical and vocational education and training (TEVT) colleges in Punjab, Pakistan. Technologies explored included computers, software, internet, CDs/DVDs, and multimedia. A survey methodology gathered input from 406 randomly selected students pursuing technology-related diploma and undergraduate programs. It was a quantitative study. Keeping in view the objective of the study, a 5-point Likert scale was developed. The data were analyzed through Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 20. Findings revealed foundational technology access is decent, including computer availability (mean=3.44) and internet connectivity (mean=3.90). Self-professed digital literacy levels were also relatively high (mean=3.59). However, actual integration into instruction lagged in areas like leveraging software tools (mean=3.16), multimedia systems (mean=3.76), and especially CD/DVDs (mean=2.75). Analysis illuminated gaps between infrastructure readiness and full-fledged adoption to enhance learning experiences. Students showed an appetite for online self-directed usage, though formal blended integration models are still developing. Findings confirm that while technical access provides a starting point, TEVT institutions should still activate progress through teacher readiness, active learning pedagogies, and reduced barriers inhibiting sophisticated digitally enabled instruction. Strategic commitments can leverage student capabilities toward truly immersive technical education fitting industry innovation.

Series of configurational movements: User activities in technology generalization

The detailed studies of adoption and user activities indicate that continuous alterations accompany the proliferation of new technology, yet diffusion theory and system change-oriented frameworks portray the spread of technologies across a social or sociotechnical system with relatively few changes. To better reconcile the two orientations, we introduce a series of configurational movements (SCM) as a conceptual register for the generalization of new technology in society. We elaborate on the SCM with an over-a-decade-long investigation into heat pumps in Finland, one of the globally furthest progressed energy transitions. The process has thus far involved nine configurational movements, each featuring a change in the character of the technology, the ecology of actors relevant to it, and the contexts in which the technology spreads. SCM analysis further surfaces eight user activity types that have shaped how the technology, its deployment, and its markets have evolved: Adoption and routine use, adaption and adjustment, championing, user innovation, community building, peer intermediation, market creation and production of legitimating discourse on heat pumps. In all, the generalization features significant shifts in user practices, the technology, and societal impact throughout the process, not only during its early phases, instilling energy system wide change.

Personalized Recommendation Method of E-Commerce Products Based on In-Depth User Interest Portraits

In dynamic e-commerce environments, researchers strive to understand users' interests and behaviors to enhance personalized product recommendations. Traditional collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms have encountered computational challenges such as similarity errors and user rating habits. This research addresses these issues by emphasizing user profiling techniques. This article proposes an innovative user profile updating technique that explores the key components of user profile (basic information, behavior, and domain knowledge). An enhanced kernel fuzzy mean clustering algorithm constructs a dynamic user portrait based on domain knowledge mapping. This dynamic portrait is combined with e-commerce personalized recommendation to improve the accuracy of inferring user interests, thus facilitating accurate recommendation on the platform. The method proposed in this article greatly improves the overall performance and provides strong support for developing smarter and more personalized e-commerce product recommendation systems.

Smart city branding vision: multiple stakeholder perspectives

City governments around the world are becoming smarter to enhance the quality of life of residents and the sustainability of the city. Becoming smart provides an opportunity to gain competitive advantages for cities by developing their identity as a smart city brand. To successfully brand a smart city, a smart city vision that incorporates the perspectives of different stakeholders can provide a useful basis for developing brand positioning strategies. This study aims to explore a smart city branding vision from the perspectives of multiple stakeholders. The study constructs and analyzes the vision maps of a smart city brand for user innovators (n = 224) and end users (n = 716) in Taiwan through surveys and network analysis. The results reveal a vision map with thirty-one elements for the two groups, consisting of seven core elements and twenty-four peripheral elements. Compared to end users, user innovators have more vision associations with a smart city brand. Additionally, the two groups share four core vision elements: smart pay, smart traffic, sound information infrastructure, and smart education. This study provides researchers with different approaches to understanding city branding vision and provides city managers with a valuable reference while designing city services and devising branding strategies for smart cities.

When necessity is the mother of disruption: Users versus producers as sources of disruptive innovation

AbstractThis study investigates the sources of disruptive innovation. The disruptive innovation literature suggests that these do not originate from existing customers, in contrast to what is predicted by the user innovation literature. We compile a unique content‐analytical dataset based on 60 innovations identified as disruptive by the disruptive innovation literature. Using multinomial and binomial regression, we find that 43% of the sample disruptive innovations were originally developed by users. Disruptive innovations are more likely to originate from users (producers) if the environment has high turbulence in customer preferences (technology). Disruptive innovations that involve high functional (technological) novelty tend to be developed by users (producers). Users are also more likely to be the source of disruptive process innovations and to innovate in environments with weaker appropriability. Our article forges new links between the disruptive and the user innovation literatures, and offers guidance to managers on the likely source of disruptive threats.

Can mergers and acquisitions internalize positive externalities in funding innovation?

Fundamental innovation usually involves huge upfront costs, but the benefits are spread across various sectors of the economy. Given the large costs and limited appropriability of the benefits associated with fundamental innovations, individual firms underinvest in these innovations relative to the socially optimal level. We find that mergers and acquisitions (M&As) can internalize the positive externalities by merging firms from both the user industries and the producer industries of an innovation. Using the US patent citation dataset, we define the user and producer relationship between each pair of industries and between each pair of industry and technological class. We then show that after a merger between an innovation user and an innovation producer (related M&As), the quantity and the quality of innovation output increase, and the increase is driven by targeted technological classes. In contrast, innovation output drops after unrelated mergers. Firms' internal resource allocation and financial flexibility play an important role in determining the effect of M&As on innovation.