TY - JOUR A1 - Bilgram, Volker T1 - KI - der neue Partner der Innovationsmanager? JF - Handelsblatt KI Business Guide N2 - Viele Unternehmen sehen das größte Potenzial Künstlicher Intelligenz darin, bei standardisierten Prozessen die bislang von Menschen geleistete Arbeit zu übernehmen. Wie KI auch in Innovationsprozessen effektiv eingesetzt werden kann, erklärt Dr. Volker Bilgram, Geschäftsführer der HYVE Innovation Research und Leiter der Artificial Intelligence Initiative bei HYVE The Innovation Company. Y1 - 2019 PB - Euroforum ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brem, Alexander A1 - Bilgram, Volker A1 - Marchuk, Anna T1 - How crowdfunding platforms change the nature of user innovation – from problem solving to entrepreneurship JF - Technological Forecasting and Social Change N2 - Crowdfunding has become a key research trend in recent years providing a new form of acquiring funding for innovation projects from users prior to the realization of the product in a ‘market before the market’. In this paper, we link the concept of crowdfunding with the user innovation phenomenon and show how user innovators harness crowdfunding to complement their innovative behavior and obtain funding to build firms and produce products in a more professional way. Conducting three case studies ranging from low- to high-tech crowdfunding campaigns, we investigate how crowdfunding impacts constituent dimensions of user innovation theory such as user motivation, user role, user community, collaboration between users and user investments. In particular, we argue that crowdfunding platforms (CFPs) may give rise to a more widespread occurrence of user entrepreneurs, who found a firm to commercialize their product or service in a marketplace they have created for their own need. Hence, we show the development from traditional user innovation to crowdfunding-enabled user innovation, which democratizes not only the creation but also the more large-scale commercialization of new products and services. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.11.020 SN - 0040-1625 VL - 144 SP - 348 EP - 360 PB - Elsevier BV ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bilgram, Volker A1 - Brem, Alexander A1 - Voigt, Kai-Ingo T1 - User-centric Innovations in New Product Development BT - Systematic Identification of Lead Users Harnessing Interactive and Collaborative Online-tools JF - International Journal of Innovation Management N2 - Corporate innovation management geared to long-term success calls for a strategy to grow innovations into a substantial competitive advantage. This, however, coincides with an enormous failure-rate at the market, especially in the field of breakthrough innovations. Hence, in recent times, companies are trying to alleviate the risk of lacking user-acceptance through opening their innovation processes to external actors, particularly customers. The method of integrating lead users is determined by the effective and systematic identification of leading-edge customers, which is considered to be a critical phase within this approach. With the arrival of Web 2.0 applications, there is a huge potential to improve these selection processes. Our research into online communities and weblogs scrutinised the search criteria in an online environment and revealed the following characteristics as crucial factors for the online identification of lead users: being ahead of a market trend, high expected benefits, user expertise and motivation, extreme user needs as well as opinion leadership and an online commitment. KW - New product developmentlead userweb 2.0online communitiesuser-centric innovation Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1142/S1363919608002096 SN - 1363-9196 VL - 12 IS - 3 PB - World Scientific CY - London ER -