The Core and Cosmopolitans: A Relational View of Innovation in User Communities

The authors thank the editor Deborah Dougherty, the anonymous reviewers, Erkko Autio, Emily Cox, Paola Criscuolo, Simone Ferriani, Alfonso Gambardella, Gerry George, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Louise Mors, Siobhan O'Mahony, Jaideep Prabhu, Francesco Rullani, Ammon Salter, Kaisa Snellman, and seminar participants at Cass Business School, Imperial College London, SKEMA Business School, the DRUID conference, the Academy of Management conference, and the EURAM conference for comments and ideas. L. Dahlander thanks Handelsbankens Forskningsstiftelser and the Sweden-America Foundation for their generous support. The authors are grateful to EPSRC's Innovation Studies Center at Imperial College London, where this research was initiated. The authors acknowledge the time and effort by Propellerhead and individuals in the user community for supporting this project. All errors remain the authors' responsibility. Both authors contributed equally to this work. They have no financial interest in Propellerhead.