The household sector innovation ecosystem: A framework and policy implications
构建了家庭部门创新生态系统的框架，识别出五大关键促进因素和三大环境条件，为理解公民在闲暇时间开发功能性新产品的过程及政策干预提供基础。
Household sector (HHS) innovation research shows that citizens around the globe commonly develop functionally novel goods and applications, at private cost during their leisure time. Their innovations can be useful to other citizens, inspire new lines of products, and give birth to new businesses. However, citizens also face challenges in developing and spreading their innovations, like information asymmetries, the indivisibility of required investments, and a lack of diffusion incentives. These legitimize policy interventions, but an integral overview of factors influencing HHS innovation (and diffusion) is missing. We apply an ecosystem perspective to develop an overview of the elements enabling HHS innovation (and diffusion), leading to a more integral understanding. Based on a literature search and expert interviews, our framework includes five key facilitators (human capital, innovation tools, platforms and workshops, resources and infrastructure, and producers and industry) and three environmental conditions (social capital, rules and regulation, and cultural norms and values). It provides a basis to classify the policies suggested so far, to guide data collection at the regional level, and to advance the research agenda on HHS innovation.