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PurposeRather than businesses, individual end consumers may develop innovations for themselves. Innovating consumers generally do not protect their innovations with intellectual property rights and may be generally available - a phenomenon recently coined as “free innovation” (von Hippel, E. (in press), Free Innovation, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA). This paper takes stock of how innovation by individual consumers has been measured, and proposes a survey procedure for future studies of consumer innovation.Design/methodology/approachI provide a literature review of how innovation by individual end consumers has been measured, and report on a pilot study conducted in Finland to improve and standardize the measurement of consumer innovation.FindingsThe survey procedure includes up to six steps which can be tailored to specific research purposes.Originality/valueThe procedure will enable better international/cross-study comparisons and an efficient collection of data.
European Journal of Innovation Management – Emerald Publishing
Published: Aug 8, 2016
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