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Kayak Innovation Survey 15 years 1 month ago #29266

A research program initiated by the MIT Sloan School of management and Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) seeks to study open innovation in sport communities. They want to better understand how individual kayakers contribute to the development of the sport and to the development of the whole industry by their innovative ideas and contributions. Please help by completing their ten minute survey at www.kayakingsurvey.org/.

It would also be helpful if you know kayak innovators who are not online by providing them a paper copy of the survey. Both Word and PDF files are available at www.theriverchasers.com/theriverchasers_005.htm. The responses can be returned via email or regular mail.

Thanks for your help and participation.

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Re:Kayak Innovation Survey 15 years 1 month ago #29268

Done. But it seems only people working or actually designing and/or manufacturing hardware in the whitewater industry should be answering the questions that were asked. Seems mostly irrelevant otherwise. Good luck :)

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Re:Kayak Innovation Survey 15 years 1 month ago #29269

Actually, that is one of the cool things about the sport. Users have always been the innovators although perhaps more true in the days of fiberglass than plastic. Nevertheless, lead users continue to be the innovators just that now instead of modifying for themselves and a small group of friends, they are working with the manufacturers. And the manufacturing companies themselves were almost always founded by paddler innovators.

The survey is also interested in more than just hardware innovation- to include new techniues or anything that might support the sport's infrastructure. :)

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