Hippel, Eric von.

Democratizing innovation / Eric von Hippel. - 1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-195) and index.

Introduction and overview --
Development of products by lead users --
Why many users want custom products --
Users' innovate-or-buy decisions --
Users' low-cost innovation niches --
Why users often freely reveal their innovations --
Innovation communities --
Adapting policy to user innovation --
Democratizing innovation --
Application: searching for lead user innovations --
Application: toolkits for user innovation and custom design --
Linking user innovation to other phenomena and fields.

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Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. This title looks closely at this emerging system of user- centred innovation. It argues that manufacturers should redesign their innovation processes and systematically seek out innovations developed by users. Hippel points to businesses - the custom semiconductor industry is one example - that have learned to assist user-innovators by providing them with toolkits for developing new products.



0262002744

2004061060


Technological innovations--Economic aspects.
Diffusion of innovations.
Democracy.


Electronic books.

HC79.T4 / H558 2005

338/.064