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Research-Technology Management Seeks Special Issue Submissions: User Innovation
Research-Technology Management, the award-winning journal of the Industrial Research Institute, seeks articles for a special issue on user innovation.
The focus of this special issue is users who innovate: how they come to innovate, how they share their innovations, how their innovations diffuse, who profits from them, and how increased user innovation is changing the corporate innovation landscape. User innovation is being spurred by the growth of Internet communities, small-scale fabrication labs, and more open paths to market; investment in user innovations may now rival that of corporate innovation.
RTM is looking for articles that explore the evolving landscape of user innovation and its implications for corporate management of innovation. Specifically we’re interested in exploring studies of user innovation, user communities, partnerships between users and corporations, the role of users in corporate innovation, and impediments to user innovation. The ideal submission will provide concrete examples to support theories about user innovation, community innovation, and corporate implications. Manuscripts that combine examples, theory, and recommendations are particularly sought. Successful submissions will offer readers practical information they can put to work immediately.
To be considered for the special issue, articles should be submitted to the Managing Editor via RTM’s Editorial Manager site at www.editorialmanager.com/rtm by April 1, 2012.
About RTM
RTM is a journal for practitioners by practitioners. Since 1958, we have published peer-reviewed articles that map the cutting edge in R&D management, illustrate how management theory can be applied to real situations, and give R&D managers the tools to promote innovation throughout their organizations.
RTM articles are concise and practice centered. We prefer submissions at around 3,500 words, although we will occasionally publish truly groundbreaking pieces as long as 5,000 words. For more information, including author’s guidelines and submission requirements, visit us at http://www.iriweb.org/rtm.
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