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<bold>Research background:</bold> One of the main ways companies gain and maintain a competitive advantage in many markets is to introduce product innovations. The degree of their acceptance by consumers is determined by many factors, among which the level of consumer innovativeness is of great importance. The paper presents the results of a study on consumer innovativeness of the adult inhabitants of the Poznań agglomeration.
<bold>Purpose:</bold> The main purpose of the study was to recognize the relationship between consumer innovativeness and consumer’s personal characteristics and to advance knowledge regarding consumer innovativeness.
<bold>Research methodology:</bold> The research was carried out using the direct interview technique with the use of an interview questionnaire, on a sample of 795 adult inhabitants of the Poznań agglomeration.
<bold>Results:</bold> The results show that there is a directly proportional relationship between consumer innovativeness and education or material status and an inversely proportional relationship between consumer innovativeness and age in the pro-innovative dimension. The results indicate that there are statistically significant differences in consumer innovativeness between groups based on respondents’ personal characteristics – gender, age, level of education and material situation. The results however are ambiguous.
<bold>Novelty:</bold> The novelty of the study is based on the verification of the relations between consumer innovativeness and their selected personal characteristics, with the example of Poland.
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Research background: One of the main ways companies gain and maintain a competitive advantage in many markets is to introduce product innovations. The degree of their acceptance by consumers is determined by many factors, among which the level of consumer innovativeness is of great importance. The paper presents the results of a study on consumer innovativeness of the adult inhabitants of the Poznań agglomeration.
Purpose: The main purpose of the study was to recognize the relationship between consumer innovativeness and consumer’s personal characteristics and to advance knowledge regarding consumer innovativeness.
Research methodology: The research was carried out using the direct interview technique with the use of an interview questionnaire, on a sample of 795 adult inhabitants of the Poznań agglomeration.
Results: The results show that there is a directly proportional relationship between consumer innovativeness and education or material status and an inversely proportional relationship between consumer innovativeness and age in the pro-innovative dimension. The results indicate that there are statistically significant differences in consumer innovativeness between groups based on respondents’ personal characteristics – gender, age, level of education and material situation. The results however are ambiguous.
Novelty: The novelty of the study is based on the verification of the relations between consumer innovativeness and their selected personal characteristics, with the example of Poland.

Consumer Innovativeness and Personal Characteristics – A Study Among the Inhabitants of the Poznań Agglomeration

Poznań University of Economics and Business

Institute of Marketing, Department of Product Marketing

Institute of Management, Department of Strategic Management

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia

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Research background: One of the main ways companies gain and maintain a competitive advantage in many markets is to introduce product innovations. The degree...

Consumer Innovativeness and Personal Characteristics – A Study Among the Inhabitants of the Poznań Agglomeration

Published Online: Jun 24, 2021

Page range: 31 - 47

Received: Aug 25, 2020

Accepted: Mar 23, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/foli-2021-0003

Keywords
innovation, consumer innovativeness, product management, consumer behavior

© 2021 Szymon Michalak et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Consumer Innovativeness and Personal Characteristics – A Study Among the Inhabitants of the Poznań Agglomeration

Published Online: Jun 24, 2021

Page range: 31 - 47

Received: Aug 25, 2020

Accepted: Mar 23, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/foli-2021-0003

Keywordsinnovation, consumer innovativeness, product management, consumer behavior

© 2021 Szymon Michalak et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Keywords
innovation, consumer innovativeness, product management, consumer behavior