Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2018.1484784
User-driven innovation: scale development and validation
Blanka Tacer
; Faculty of Management, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia
Mitja Ruzzier
; Faculty of Management, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia
Tine Nagy
; Inovaktiv, Koper, Slovenia
Sažetak
In dynamic business environments entrepreneurs increasingly strive
to customise new products/services to displayed and latent user
needs. User-driven innovation (U.D.I.) aims to incorporate user needs
by giving users an active role in the innovation process. Despite the
growing interest of researchers in U.D.I., empirical evidence remains
scarce, because of a lack of a psychometrically sound instrument to
enhance insight into U.D.I. This paper derives an integrative definition
of U.D.I. from different U.D.I. research streams and proposes a model
with three distinctive dimensions of U.D.I.: user involvement, searching
feedback and design orientation. Three consecutive studies result
in a 13-item U.D.I. scale with appropriate reliability, dimensionality,
convergent and discriminant validity. Pilot studies include researchers,
entrepreneurs and practitioners. The main study comprises data of
357 S.M.E.s. The analyses confirm the multidimensionality of the
proposed construct. This study contributes to existing research of
U.D.I. in entrepreneurship by addressing the multidimensional nature
of U.D.I. with a new research instrument. The proposed U.D.I. scale can
be used in future investigations of U.D.I. The construct is informative
also for practitioners in introducing U.D.I. to their companies.
Ključne riječi
User-driven innovation; scale validation; user involvement; SMEs research; R&D Management; small business management
Hrčak ID:
206117
URI
Datum izdavanja:
3.12.2018.
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