Innovation Quote by Eric von Hippel

“individual users do not have to develop everything they need on their own: they can benefit from innovations developed”

— 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

Most innovation comes from people working together, collaborating in teams.

— Walter Isaacson

Because the process of innovation often relies heavily on the combining and recombining of previous innovations, the broader and deeper the pool of accessible…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.

— Thomas A. Edison

“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