Innovation Quote by Eric von Hippel

“The user and manufacturer categorization of relationships between innovator and innovation can be extended to specific functions, attributes, or features of products and services.…

— 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

“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, 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

“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

“different products or innovations. For example, Boeing is a manufacturer of airplanes, but it is also a user of machine tools. If we were…

— Eric von Hippel

“Innovators come before innovation.”

— Lisa Kay Solomon

“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

“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

“For a company to innovate, it must create products and services that let consumers perform a job faster, better, more conveniently, and/or less expensively…

— Anthony Ulwick

The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less…

— John Seely Brown

“Technically speaking, innovation is the process of creating a product or service solution that delivers significant new customer value.”

— Anthony Ulwick