Eric von Hippel

“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

“1978 Jurgen Honscheid came over from West Germany for the first Hawaiian World Cup and discovered jumping, which was new to him,…

— Eric von Hippel

“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

“structure of the social division of labor. Many firms and industries must make fundamental changes to long-held business models in order to…

— Eric von Hippel

“the ongoing shift of product-development activities from manufacturers to users is painful and difficult for many manufacturers.”

— Eric von Hippel

“Dedicated to all who are building the information commons.”

— Eric von Hippel

“increase the ease with which innovators can build larger systems from interlinkable modules created by community participants. Free and open source software…

— Eric von Hippel

“The architecture of the pizza pie illustrates how this can be done. Many aspects of the design of a pizza, such as…

— Eric von Hippel

“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

“created specifically to separate the problem-solving tasks requiring access to a manufacturer's sticky solution information from those requiring access to users' sticky…

— Eric von Hippel

“universities and the Library of Congress, with support provided by grants from the federal government (Tedd 1994). Until roughly 1978, the only…

— Eric von Hippel

“Copyright owners can prevent others from building new works on characters (e.g. Mickey Mouse) that are already familiar to customers. The result…

— Eric von Hippel

“In 1978 Jurgen Honscheid came over from West Germany for the first Hawaiian World Cup and discovered jumping, which was new to…

— Eric von Hippel

“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

“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

“example, developed the World Wide Web as a lead user working at CERN. The World Wide Web was certainly”

— Eric von Hippel

“The whole sport of high-performance windsurfing really started from that. As soon as I did it, there were about ten of us…

— Eric von Hippel

“contribution of users is growing steadily larger as a result of continuing advances in computer and”

— Eric von Hippel

“Chapter 4 concludes by pointing out that an additional incentive can drive individual user-innovators to innovate rather than buy: they may value…

— Eric von Hippel

“Today, an open source software development project is typically initiated by an individual or a small group seeking a solution to an…

— Eric von Hippel

“Later, I collaborated with a number of wonderful co-authors, all of whom are friends as well: Stan Finkelstein,”

— Eric von Hippel

“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

“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

“individual or a small group seeking a solution to an individual's or a”

— Eric von Hippel

“Early in my research on the democratization of innovation I was very fortunate to gain five major academic mentors and friends. Nathan…

— Eric von Hippel