Technology Quote by Eric von Hippel

“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 the manufacturer-centric…

— Eric von Hippel

“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…

— 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 manufacturers in…

— 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 manufacturers in…

— 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 benefit directly…

— Eric von Hippel

The companies that get innovation right, again and again, are the ones that feel what their customers feel. That is true user-centered innovation

— Sohrab Vossoughi

“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

“Users and manufacturers can apply the insights developed in this book to improve their innovation processes. In this chapter, I illustrate by showing how…

— 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 benefit directly…

— Eric von Hippel

“between users and manufacturers is that users tend to develop innovations that are functionally novel, requiring a great deal of user-need information and use-context…

— Eric von Hippel

“I conclude this chapter by reminding the reader that studies of the sources of innovation show clearly that users will tend to develop some…

— Eric von Hippel

“Users, as the term will be used in this book, are firms or individual consumers that expect to benefit from using a product or…

— Eric von Hippel