Democratizing innovation / Eric von Hippel.

By: Hippel, Eric von
Language: English Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, c2005Description: 1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 0262002744Subject(s): Technological innovations -- Economic aspects | Diffusion of innovations | DemocracyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 338/.064 LOC classification: HC79.T4 | H558 2005Online resources: Full text available at Directory of Open Acces Books Click here to view
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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