User Innovation Mode Based on Toolkits
Tingting Fan · Beijing Hangkong Hangtian Daxue xuebao · 2006
Traditional product development depends on the manufacturers' exact knowledge of users' needs,however,the rapid changing pace of market needs creates some problems with the present market research methods which can hardly achieve the purpose at a rational cost.To solve this problem,the authors illustrate the user innovation mode based on toolkits as an alternative approach.In this mode,manufacturers outsource need-related product development to users themselves by the way of toolkits to develop new product collaboratively.This paper first introduces the concept of user innovation,illustrates user innovation mode based on toolkits and toolkits' functions,discusses the differences between this new mode and the traditional product development,and finally analyzes its feasibility and applicability.