Research On The Technological Innovation Based On User Participation

Technological innovation is the key to enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises. With the pluralism and globalization of economy, the market become more and more complex, the user demand structure and demand level is undergoing tremendous changes, the risk coefficient of technological innovation is more and more high. In this situation, the enterprise rely on its own strength alone to carry out innovation is very difficult to obtain a competitive advantage, and allowing users to participate in innovation has become an effective way that enterprise beyond their own limitations and gain market position.The user has been proved to be an important source of technological innovation,and the technological innovation based on user participation is a win-win way to have important practical significance. Network eliminates the gap between enterprises and users in the space, resulting in a variety of user innovation model. For example, the user innovation model based on social media, the user innovation model based on crowdsourcing, and the user innovation model based on maker, and so on. Through these models, the users can provide requirements, experience, innovative ideas or innovative products to the enterprise, and help enterprise to solve professional problem.The Motivation of user innovation generally include: the use of demand, economic or material benefits needs, social needs or psychological needs, and different motivations will lead to different results of innovation. Xiaomi company is a example of user innovative practice in recent years, they gathered users through the online community,create products constantly according to user needs and experiences,and allow users to participate in product development, testing and production. As a new internet company,the rapid development is inseparable from the extensive application of user innovation strategy.In the network society, the user innovation with vigorous vitality and strong momentum of development is affecting enterprise’s innovation model. Technologicalinnovation activities are transforming to the user as the center, social practice as the stage, user participation and open innovation as the characteristic. Enterprises to fully excavate and utilize the user innovation resources will become the key to achieve better and faster development.