Leadership Quote by 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

“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

“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

“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

“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 projects are…

— 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 the dough…

— 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, it is…

— 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 need information.…

— 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 such systems…

— 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 is that…

— Eric von Hippel