Collaborative innovation with customers or users is increasingly important for the
development of new products and services. In this paper we provide a review of the …

Abstract “Design Thinking”–a cross-disciplinary and user centered method–is an approach
towards the discovery of solutions and sparks innovative thinking in many ways. It also can …

Purpose This paper aims to analyse the general effect of co-created products on the brand
equity of observers (OBBE). The influence of different implementations of the co-creation …

Different types of virtual innovation-related communities have emerged in recent years.
These are increasingly being utilized by companies from different industries as a tool to …

This study explores value co-creation in university industry collaborations. The study is
inspired by the constructivist approach to grounded theory and self-ethnography and based …

The purpose of this paper is to discuss and classify the roles of customers in innovations. In
literature on innovations, customers have been increasingly emphasised as a source for …

The promise of customers as an external resource for new-product development (NPD) has
been recognized in theory and practice for a long time. Technological progress has …

Maker spaces and maker activities offering access to low-cost digital fabrication equipment
are rapidly proliferating, evolving phenomena at the interface of lay and professional design …

Tämän artikkelipohjaisen väitöskirjan tutkimuskohteena on Helsingin keskustakirjasto Oodin
yhteissuunnittelu ja sen tarkastelu osana laajempaa julkisen sektorin uudistumista …

Users play an increasingly important role in product and service innovation. Finding the right
users can require substantial search effort. Network searches are increasingly popular in …