Lead User Innovation
Lead User Innovation
Lead User Innovation
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Search for lead users in target or<br />
analogous markets?<br />
An analogous market is a market that shares an important need with the target market.<br />
Ideally, in an advanced form.<br />
• For example: manufacturer is<br />
looking for a method of infection<br />
prevention in medical surgery<br />
(target market)<br />
• Need: avoiding air pollution<br />
(germs etc.)<br />
Source: Herstatt/Lüthje/Lettl 2002<br />
• Analogous market = chip<br />
production<br />
• Same need<br />
• Maybe better insights?<br />
© Marion Poetz 2011