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Which users come up with the most<br />

attractive user innovations?<br />

Commercially attractive user innovation activities are concentrated among a special<br />

sub-group of users (lead users)<br />

<strong>User</strong>s needing<br />

a new product<br />

<strong>Lead</strong><br />

users<br />

find<br />

solution<br />

<strong>Lead</strong><br />

users<br />

Commercial products available<br />

Early Adopters<br />

Routine <strong>User</strong>s<br />

Source: von Hippel/Thomke/Sonnack 1999<br />

time<br />

© Marion Poetz 2011

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