Innovation Quote by Eric von Hippel

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

— 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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