TY - BOOK AU - Prandelli,Emanuela AU - Swahney,Mohanbir AU - Verona,Gianmario TI - Collaborating with customers to innovate : conceiving and marketing products in the networking age SN - 9781847203731 U1 - 658.575 PY - 2008/// CY - Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : PB - Edward Elgar, KW - New products KW - Renewal. KW - Clients. KW - Collaboration N1 - Including Index; An increasing need for innovation -- The promise of collaborative innovation -- Tools for collaborative innovation -- Managing an integrated portfolio of tools for collaborative innovation -- From collaborative to distributed innovation -- Virtual communities -- Virtual knowledge brokers -- Open-source systems -- Conclusions N2 - The Internet has created the problem of an increasing need for innovation, but - as this volume explains - also provides the solution. The authors explore the collaborative potential offered by customers in digital environments to enhance the effectiveness of new product development ER -