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lead users: a standalone construct

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Innovation management

users whose present strong needs will become general in a market months or years later, and who often innovate.

In innovation management, lead users refers to users whose present strong needs will become general in a market months or years later, and who often innovate. This meaning comes from von Hippel (1986) in Management Science.[1]

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anthropomorphic design cues1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct innovation6 fields · 11 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs market3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

von Hippel, E. (1986). Lead Users: A Source of Novel Product Concepts. Management Science, 32(7), 791-805. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.32.7.791

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