Research on the Cost Sharing of Customer Collaborative Product Innovation
Customer collaborative product innovation is the major style of the innovation activities of enterprises, which not only needs supporting by the hardware and software environment, but the participations of both customers and staffs of enterprises. This paper analyzes the participators in customer collaborative product innovation system form the viewpoints of customers and enterprises respectively. Based on Cooperative game theory, the cost sharing model for customer collaborative product innovation is established. Practical application study is provided for the model use, which analyzes the costs sharing of each participator quantitatively so as to guarantee a long-lasting and stable development for customer collaborative product innovation system.