Exploring How Peer Communities Enable Lead User Innovations to Become Standard Equipment in the Industry: Community Pull Effects

Christoph Hienerth, Christopher Lettl · 2011 · Journal of Product Innovation Management

Summary. Lead users in medical and sporting equipment industries develop innovations that become industry standards through active peer community engagement. Community members provide critical feedback, contribute to product development, test prototypes, and drive diffusion. Two key mechanisms emerge: communities demand and facilitate prototype development, and they bridge the gap between early adopters and mainstream markets. Peer communities function as essential social networks that actively shape entrepreneurial innovation processes.

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DOI

10.1111/j.1540-5885.2011.00869.x

Countries

Austria

Regions

Europe

Categories

innovation-networks, innovation-theory, entrepreneurship, general-innovation

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2026-04-28