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Finding Commercially Attractive User Innovations: A Performance Evaluation of the 'Lead User Construct'

The "lead user construct" was developed to preferentially identify commercially attractive innovation-related information developed by users of products and services. In this research, we use data drawn from users of Apache, an open source software project, to assess the association between each of the two components of the lead user construct and the likely commercial attractiveness of innovations developed by users. We find both construct components have significant explanatory value with respect to the likelihood of innovation by users. We also find that one component - being at the leading edge of important marketplace trends - does selectively identify user-developed innovations having higher marketplace potential.