“inventory-management systems, such as retailers, tend to be the developers of new approaches to inventory management. In contrast, manufacturers of inventory-management systems and equipment tend to develop improvements to the” — 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
“In 1978 Jurgen Honscheid came over from West Germany for the first Hawaiian World Cup and discovered jumping, which was new to him, although… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“and services-both firms and individual consumers-are increasingly able to innovate for themselves. User-centered innovation processes offer great advantages over the manufacturer-centric innovation development systems… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“The trend toward democratization of innovation applies to information products such as software and also to physical products. As a quick illustration of the… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
