“structure of the social division of labor. Many firms and industries must make fundamental changes to long-held business models in order to adapt. Further, governmental policy and legislation sometimes preferentially supports innovation by manufacturers. Considerations of social welfare suggest that… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“great advantages over the manufacturer-centric innovation development systems that have been the mainstay of commerce for hundreds of years. Users that innovate can develop exactly what they want, rather than relying on manufacturers to act as their (often very imperfect)… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“The user-centered innovation process just illustrated is in sharp contrast to the traditional model, in which products and services are developed by manufacturers in… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“1978 Jurgen Honscheid came over from West Germany for the first Hawaiian World Cup and discovered jumping, which was new to him, although Mike… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“In this book I explain in detail how the emerging process of user-centric, democratized innovation works. I also explain how innovation by users provides… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“structure of the social division of labor. Many firms and industries must make fundamental changes to long-held business models in order to adapt. Further,… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“the ongoing shift of product-development activities from manufacturers to users is painful and difficult for many manufacturers.” — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“increase the ease with which innovators can build larger systems from interlinkable modules created by community participants. Free and open source software projects are… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“The architecture of the pizza pie illustrates how this can be done. Many aspects of the design of a pizza, such as the dough… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“Innovation by users tends to be widely distributed rather than concentrated among just a very few very innovative users. As a result, it is… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“created specifically to separate the problem-solving tasks requiring access to a manufacturer's sticky solution information from those requiring access to users' sticky need information.… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“universities and the Library of Congress, with support provided by grants from the federal government (Tedd 1994). Until roughly 1978, the only such systems… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“Copyright owners can prevent others from building new works on characters (e.g. Mickey Mouse) that are already familiar to customers. The result is that… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
