“The user-centered innovation process just illustrated is in sharp contrast to the traditional model, in which products and services are developed by… — 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… — 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,… — 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… — 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… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“Innovation user and innovation manufacturer are the two general "functional" relationships between innovator and innovation. Users are unique in that they alone… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“different products or innovations. For example, Boeing is a manufacturer of airplanes, but it is also a user of machine tools. If… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“individual users do not have to develop everything they need on their own: they can benefit from innovations developed” — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“Users, as the term will be used in this book, are firms or individual consumers that expect to benefit from using a… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“I conclude this chapter by reminding the reader that studies of the sources of innovation show clearly that users will tend to… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“Users and manufacturers can apply the insights developed in this book to improve their innovation processes. In this chapter, I illustrate by… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“each innovator will tend to develop innovations that draw on the sticky information it already has, because that is” — 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… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“between users and manufacturers is that users tend to develop innovations that are functionally novel, requiring a great deal of user-need information… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“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
“Innovation user and innovation manufacturer are the two general "functional" relationships between innovator and innovation. Users are unique in that they alone… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“the Sources of Innovation: The Case of Scientific Instruments." Research Policy 23, no. 4: 459-469.” — 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… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“users of products and services-both firms and individual consumers-are increasingly able to innovate for themselves. User-centered innovation processes offer great advantages over… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“manufacturer categorization of relationships between innovator and innovation can be extended to specific functions, attributes, or features of products and services. When” — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“The user and manufacturer categorization of relationships between innovator and innovation can be extended to specific functions, attributes, or features of products… — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“Sticky Information and the Locus of Problem Solving: Implications for Innovation." Management” — 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
