User Innovation Barriers’ Impact on User-Developed Products

Thorsten Pieper is project manager and researcher at the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management focusing on open innovation in the field of aircraft industries, agricultural machinery and consumer goods. He graduated at the Hamburg University of Technology with Prof. Dr. Cornelius Herstatt.

• Identification of barriers in the user innovation process.- Criteria for distinction of barriers and resource-based problems.- Analysis of moderating effects of innovators’ openness on product properties.