User initiated product innovations

Abstract Reverse innovation is new product marketing by users—a process in which an industrial user, having invented a novel device and applied it in their own productive system, acts entrepreneurially to gain maximally from its diffusion as a product innovation. The article presents case studies of the use of quasi- and full vertical integration in pursuit of reverse innovation.

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