Frank T. Piller

RWTH Aachen University

INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

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“  I am currently studying decision making in the age of AI/ML, Industry 4.0, and industrial data ecosystems -- and how to turn this into sustainable business model innovation.  ”

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From Social Media to Social Product Development: The Impact of Social Media on Co-Creation of Innovation

Die Unternehmung, Vol. 65, No. 1, 2012
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Dec 2011
Frank T. Piller, Alexander Vossen and Christoph Ihl
RWTH Aachen University, BI Norwegian Business School and RWTH Aachen University, Technology and Innovation Management Group
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Open innovation, co-creation, social media, social product development

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Mass Customization at Adidas: Three Strategic Capabilities to Implement Mass Customization

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 31 Jan 2012
Frank T. Piller, Evalotte Lindgens and Frank Steiner
RWTH Aachen University, RWTH Aachen University and RWTH Aachen University - School of Business and Economics
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mass customization, customisation, personalization, Adidas, sports, sporting goods, case study, qualitative research

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A Typology of Customer Co-Creation in the Innovation Process

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 30 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2014
Frank T. Piller, Christoph Ihl and Alexander Vossen
RWTH Aachen University, RWTH Aachen University, Technology and Innovation Management Group and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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open innovation, customer co-creation, fuzzy front end, innovation management, need information, user innovation

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Open Innovation with Customers: Crowdsourcing and Co-Creation at Threadless

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 07 Oct 2010
Frank T. Piller
RWTH Aachen University
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Open Innovation, Threadless, Crowdsourcing, Oo-creation, Mass Customization, Innovation

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Mass Customization: A Strategy for Customer-Centric Enterprises - A Review of the Strategic Capabilities to Make Mass Customization Work

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 07 Dec 2010
Frank T. Piller
RWTH Aachen University
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mass customization, mass customisation, personalization, robust processes, configuration, personalization, review paper

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The Open Innovation Research Landscape: Established Perspectives and Emerging Themes across Different Levels of Analysis

Industry and Innovation, 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 8-40, DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2016.1240068
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 05 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2018
Marcel Bogers, Ann-Kristin Zobel, Allan Afuah, Esteve Almirall, Sabine Brunswicker, Linus Dahlander, Lars Frederiksen, Annabelle Gawer, Marc Gruber, Stefan Haefliger, Stefan Haefliger, John Hagedoorn, Dennis Hilgers, Keld Laursen, Mats Magnusson, Ann Majchrzak, Ian P. McCarthy, Kathrin M. Moeslein, Satish Nambisan, Frank T. Piller, Agnieszka Radziwon, Agnieszka Radziwon, Cristina Rossi Lamastra, Jonathan Sims and Anne L. J. Ter Wal
Eindhoven University of Technology, ETH Zürich, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, ESADE Business School, Purdue University - Research Center for Open Digital Innovation (RCODI), ESMT European School of Management and Technology, Aarhus University - School of Business and Social Sciences, University of Surrey, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne - MTEI, ETH Zürich - Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (D-MTEC)City, University of London, Maastricht University, School of Business and Economics, JKU Linz | Institute for Public and Nonprofit Management, Copenhagen Business School - Department of Industrial Economics & Strategy (IVS), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, Simon Fraser University (SFU) - Beedie School of Business, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Aarhus UniversityUniversity of Southern Denmark - Mads Clausen Institute for Product Innovation, Politecnico di Milano, Babson College - Management Division and Imperial College Business School
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Open Innovation, Review, Research, Theory, Contingencies, Knowledge, Collaboration

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Ten Propositions on the Future of Digital Business Models for Industry 4.0 in the Post-Corona Economy

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 03 Jun 2020
Frank T. Piller
RWTH Aachen University
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Industry 4.0, industrie 4.0, business model, digital platform, smart manufacturing, smart factory, COVID-19, Corona crisis

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Business Model Innovation for Industrie 4.0: Why the 'Industrial Internet' Mandates a New Perspective on Innovation

Die Unternehmung, Vol 2/2016
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2020
Christian Burmeister, Dirk Luettgens and Frank T. Piller
RWTH Aachen University - Technology and Innovation Management Group, RWTH Aachen University - Technology and Innovation Management Group and RWTH Aachen University
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Business Model innovation, Industry 4.0, Industrial Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Production Systems, qualitative research

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Organizing for Open Innovation: Aligning Internal Structure with External Knowledge Search

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 21 Oct 2012
Christoph Ihl, Frank T. Piller and Philipp Wagner
RWTH Aachen University, Technology and Innovation Management Group, RWTH Aachen University and RWTH Aachen University
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open Innovation, innovative search, external knowledge, R&D intensity, organizational structure

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Leading Edge Users and Latent Consumer Needs in Electromobility: Findings from a Nethnographic Study of User Innovation in High-Tech Online Communities

RWTH-TIM Working Paper, February 2014
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Mar 2014
Patrick Pollok, Dirk Lüttgens and Frank T. Piller
Institute for Technology and Innovation Management, RWTH Aachen University and RWTH Aachen University
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User Innovation, Innovation Communities, Netnography, Green Innovation, Empathic Design, Electric Mobility

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Implementing Open Innovation Beyond the Pilot Stage: Barriers and Organizational Interventions

RWTH-TIM Working Paper, October 2012
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2015
Dirk Lüttgens, David Antons, Patrick Pollok and Frank T. Piller
RWTH Aachen University, RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Technology and Innovation Management and RWTH Aachen University
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Crowdsourcing, Tournament-based Crowdsourcing, Broadcast Search, Open Innovation, Promotor, Barriers to Innovation, Implementation, Adoption of Innovation

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The 18th Open & User Innovation Conference (OUI 2021): Book of Abstracts

Number of pages: 143 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Frank T. Piller, Patrick Pollok and Kathleen Diener
RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Technology and Innovation Management and RWTH Aachen University - Technology and Innovation Management Group
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Open innovation, platform, crowdsourcing, collaborative innovation, lead users, user innovation, co-creation

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The Paradox of Tie Strength in Customer Relationships for Innovation: A Longitudinal Case Study in the Sports Industry

R&D Management, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 470–484, November 2011
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 09 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2011
Tobias Fredberg and Frank T. Piller
Chalmers University of Technology and RWTH Aachen University
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innovation, weak ties, customer relationships, disruptive innovation, customer centricity, idea competition, idea contest

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Introduction: Mass Customization Thinking: Moving from Pilot Stage to an Established Business Strategy

HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH IN MASS CUSTOMIZATION AND PERSONALIZATION
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 26 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2010
Frank T. Piller and Mitchell M. Tseng
RWTH Aachen University and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
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Mass Customization, Personalization, Engineer-to-Order, Open Innovation, User Co-Creation; Modularity, Platform Design, Customer Centricity

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Cost of Collaboration in Open Innovation: The Mediating Role of Search Strategy

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 01 Mar 2015
Kathleen Diener, Dirk Luettgens and Frank T. Piller
RWTH Aachen University - Technology and Innovation Management Group, RWTH Aachen University - Technology and Innovation Management Group and RWTH Aachen University
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Open Innovation, Intermediaries, Coordination, Cost

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Industry 4.0 and Sustainability: Ten propositions how digital business models foster sustainability in Industry 4.0

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 30 Dec 2021
Frank T. Piller
RWTH Aachen University
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Industrie 4.0, Industry 4.0, sustainability, business models, digital transformation

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All for the Money? The Ambiguity of Monetary Rewards in Firm-Initiated Ideation with Users

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 21 Oct 2012
Christoph Ihl, Alexander Vossen and Frank T. Piller
RWTH Aachen University, Technology and Innovation Management Group, BI Norwegian Business School and RWTH Aachen University
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user innovation, idea contests, incentives, motivation

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The Market for Open Innovation: Collaborating in Open Ecosystems for Innovation

The 2020 Open Innovation Accelerator Survey, September 2019
Number of pages: 128 Posted: 18 Aug 2020
Kathleen Diener and Frank T. Piller
RWTH Aachen University - Technology and Innovation Management Group and RWTH Aachen University
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Open Innovation, Intermediary, Platform, Crowd-Sourcing, Collaborative Innovation, Broker, Technology Transfer, User Innovation, Co-Creation

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Taking Stock of Customization Research: A Computational Review and Interdisciplinary Research Agenda

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 Jul 2020
Stephan Hankammer, Stephan Hankammer, David Antons, Robin Kleer, Robin Kleer and Frank T. Piller
RWTH Aachen UniversityAlanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, RWTH Aachen University, Vlerick Business SchoolRWTH Aachen University and RWTH Aachen University
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Customization, Mass Customization, Text Mining, Research Agenda,Topic Modeling, Computational Review

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Materializing Commons Based Peer Production Beyond Open Source Software – Explorative Insights from a Comparative Case Study

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 08 Oct 2013
Dennis Hilgers, Gordon Müller-Seitz and Frank T. Piller
JKU Linz | Institute for Public and Nonprofit Management, Free University of Berlin and RWTH Aachen University
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Open source software, commons-based peer production, open data, open hardware, open innovation, qualitative research, case studies

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Attracting Solutions in Crowdsourcing Contests: The Role of Knowledge-Distance, Identity Disclosure, and Seeker Status

Pollok, P., Lüttgens, D., & Piller, F. T. (2019). Attracting solutions in crowdsourcing contests: The role of knowledge distance, identity disclosure, and seeker status. Research Policy, 48(1), 98-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.07.022
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 27 Aug 2021
Patrick Pollok, Dirk Luettgens and Frank T. Piller
Institute for Technology and Innovation Management, RWTH Aachen University - Technology and Innovation Management Group and RWTH Aachen University
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Open innovation, Crowdsourcing, Status, Identity revealing, Uncertainty reduction theory

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Knowledge diversity and team creativity: How hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games

Research Policy, Vol. 50, No. 8, 2021
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Aug 2021
Patrick Pollok, André Amft, Dirk Luettgens and Frank T. Piller
Institute for Technology and Innovation Management, RWTH Aachen University, RWTH Aachen University - Technology and Innovation Management Group and RWTH Aachen University
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Team creativity, User innovation, Free innovation, Household sector, Knowledge diversity, Information processing, Shared mental models

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Towards a Classification of Brand Names in Mass Customization

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mass Customization and Personalization in Central Europe (MCP-CE 2012), September 19-21, Novi Sad, Serbia
Posted: 23 Apr 2013
Dominik Walcher, Eva Sporrer, Evalotte Lindgens and Frank T. Piller
Salzburg University of Applied Sciences - Faculty of Design and Product Management, Fachhochschule Salzburg (FHS) University of Applied Sciences, RWTH Aachen University and RWTH Aachen University

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Mass Customization, Branding, Brand Names, Classification

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A Priorization Algorithm for Configuration Scheduling in a Mass Customization Environment

HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH IN MASS CUSTOMIZATION AND PERSONALIZATION, Frank T. Piller, Mitchell M. Tseng, World Scientific Publishing, December 2009
Posted: 24 Apr 2010
Ashok Kumar and Frank T. Piller
Grand Valley State University and RWTH Aachen University

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Mass Customization, Personalization, Engineer-to-Order, Open Innovation, User Co-Creation, Modularity, Platform Design, Customer Centricity