User-innovators and “local” information: The case of mountain biking |
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Authors: | Christian Lüthje Cornelius Herstatt |
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Institution: | a Technical University of Hamburg, Institute of Technology and Innovation Management, Hamburg, Germany b MIT Sloan School of Management, Room E52-556, 50 Memorial Dr., Cambridge, MA 02141, USA |
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Abstract: | In a study of innovations developed by mountain bikers, we find that user-innovators almost always utilize “local” information - information already in their possession or generated by themselves - both to determine the need for and to develop the solutions for their innovations. We argue that this finding fits the economic incentives operating on users. Local need information will in general be the most relevant to user-innovators, since the bulk of their innovation-related rewards typically come from in-house use. User-innovators will increasingly tend to rely on local solution information as the stickiness of non-local solution information rises. When user-innovators do rely on local information, it may be possible to predict the general nature of the innovations they might develop. |
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Keywords: | User innovation Sticky information Local information |
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