TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hippel,Eric von
TI  - Democratizing innovation
SN  - 0262002744
AV  - HC79.T4 H558 2005
U1  - 338/.064 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Diffusion of innovations
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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; 300-399; 330
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/26093/1003993.pdf?sequence=1
ER  -