Customer as a Participant of Innovative Networks
Potrošač kao učesnik inovacionih mreža
Abstract
The changes in market conditions and basis for competing have brought the changes in profiling and realizing innovation strategies. Customers are the key subject in the process of generating of innovation. Customers in modern conditions do not wait for initiative of enterprise in value creation and they are not a part of formal processes of marketing research. The new communication technologies help them to be included in voluntary way in innovative activities of enterprise, which is motivated by brand loyalty, enthusiasm, hobby, wish to investigate. The enterprises realize the validity of this important source of new ideas and change their behaviour. The intention of author is to consider the importance of innovative networks for market innovation success, to analyse customer evolution from user to value creator, to identify the characteristics of customer as innovator, and to point to challenges for enterprise in the process of including them in its innovative activities.
Apstrakt
Promene tržišnih uslova i osnova za konkurisanje dovele su do promena u profilisanju i realizaciji inovacionih strategija. Potrošači su ključni subjekt u valorizaciji inovacija, a informacije o njima suštinske za u generisanju inovacija. Potrošači u savremenim uslovima ne čekaju inicijativu preduzeća u stvaranju vrednosti i nisu deo formalizovanih procesa marketing istraživanja. Oni se zahvaljujući novim komunikacionim tehnologijama sve više dobrovoljno uključuju u inovacione aktivnosti preduzeća, a motivisani su lojalnošću marki, entuzijazmom, željom da istražuju. Preduzeća shvataju značaj ovog važnog izvora novih ideja i menjaju svoje ponašanje. Namera autora u radu je da razmotri značaj inovacionih mreža za tržišni uspeh inovacija, analizira evoluciju potrošača od korisnika do stvaraoca vrednosti, identifikuje karakteristike potrošača kao inovatora i ukaže na izazove sa kojima se preduzeće susreće u procesu njihovog uključivanja u obavljanje inovacionih aktivnosti.
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