This study found that customer-driven innovation is becoming increasingly more essential in today's competitive marketplace. In recent past, it was always company performing innovations for the customers. But we found that customer is and will be primary source of innovation during the next several decades. Therefore, we explored that customer-driven innovation is become more beneficial than older paradigms of innovation in both academia and industry. The comparison of theory and practice helped us to identify that increase customer satisfaction is most vital motive for company to cooperate...