Embedded lead users - a gap in the literature

To summarize, I find that many of the papers in the field of user innovation, lead users, and user entrepreneurship are focusing on the characteristics of innovating users and lead users (Clusters 1 and 7.2). Others are mainly Involved with the question how 22 

In the last chapter I have explained central tenets of user innovation and explored which different research streams and clusters constitute the field. I find that research on embedded lead users is very scarce, if not non-existent. In the following chapter I will discuss why, from a conceptual standpoint, lead users can also be located inside of firms and why this phenomenon merits further research. 

Three principles can be extracted from above argumentation that help to structure type of knowledge, boundaries of the Arm, and loci of innovation into a single framework  

For innovation to happen, need and solution knowdedge have to be collocated (Alexander 1964 von Hippel 1994] 

There has been a debate in research, whether knowledge is located at collective or individual level (Felin and Hesterly 2007 Felin and Spender 2009 Foss 1996). In this chapter I will, as already mentioned in 1.1.3, take the perspective that knowledge resides with individuals and organization knowledge is an outcome thereof. Nonetheless, 1 will sometimes refer to the firm, which consists of Individuals with heterogeneously distributed knowledge (Felin and Hesterly 2007], 

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