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In this paper, in order to overcome the shortcomings of traditional evaluation methods, a novel intelligent method is proposed to identify lead users efficiently based on the cost-sensitive learning and support vector machine theory. To this end, the characteristics of lead users in CCPI are first analyzed and concluded in-depth. On its basis, considering the sample misidentification cost and identification accuracy rate, an improved cost-sensitive learning support vector machine (ICS-SVM) method for lead user identification in CCPI is further proposed. A real case is provided to illustrate the effectiveness and advantages of the ICS-SVM method on lead user identification in CCPI. The case results show that the ICS-SVM method can effectively identify lead users in CCPI. This work contributes to user innovation literature by proposing a new way of identifying highly valuable lead users and offers a decision support for the efficient user management in CCPI.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jtaer16050088","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,12]],"date-time":"2021-05-12T10:59:12Z","timestamp":1620817152000},"page":"1571-1583","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["An Intelligent Method for Lead User Identification in Customer Collaborative Product Innovation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6001-5744","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiafu","family":"Su","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Economy of Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China"},{"name":"School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China"},{"name":"International College, Krirk University, Bangkok 10220, Thailand"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1252-2087","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xu","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fengting","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Economy of Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Na","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mines, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fei","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China"},{"name":"CISDI Engineering Co., Ltd., Chongqing 400013, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"40","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jengtecman.2015.08.004","article-title":"The search for innovative partners in co-creation: Identifying lead users in social media through netnography and crowdsourcing","volume":"37","author":"Brem","year":"2015","journal-title":"J. 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