Gaining the Initiative: User Entrepreneurial Process Driven by Innovation

With the development of Internet technology and the prosperity of platform economy, the phenomenon that users undertake innovative and entrepreneurial activities keeps emerging. User innovation and entrepreneurship are very important research streams in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship. User entrepreneurship is exactly opposite to traditional entrepreneurship. However, the existing research has not fully and deeply revealed the process mechanism of user entrepreneurship driven by user innovation, and lacks a holistic overview. Address to this, this study summarizes the connotation and classification of the entrepreneurial process driven by user innovation on the basis of systematically review the literature, then applys multiple theories to interpret the micro-process of entrepreneurship driven by user innovation, refines the research focus of "antecedent-process-result" variables, and finally constructs a holistic research framework of entrepreneurial process driven by user innovation. The research attempts to thoroughly reveal the entrepreneurial process mechanism driven by user innovation, and puts forward specific suggestions for future research in this field. The conclusion and prospect of the study are helpful to promote the entrepreneurial research driven by user innovation, and at the same time provide reference for making the relevant entrepreneurial policies to promote the transition of user innovators to user entrepreneurs.