Eric Von Hippel:Democratizing Innovation

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Chapters

1. Introduction and Overview 1 - Discuss
2. Development of Products by Lead Users 19 - Discuss
3. Why Many Users Want Custom Products 33 - Discuss
4. Users' Innovate-or-Buy Decisions 45 - Discuss
5. Users' Low-Cost Innovation Niches 63 - Discuss
6. Why Users Often Freely Reveal Their Innovations 77 - Discuss
7. Innovation Communities 93 - Discuss
8. Adapting Policy to User Innovation 107 - Discuss
9. Democratizing Innovation 121 - Discuss
10. Application: Searching for Lead User Innovations 133 - Discuss
11. Application: Toolkits for User Innovation and Custom Design 147 - Discuss
12. Linking User Innovation to Other Phenomena and Fields 165 - Discuss

Notes 179

Bibliography 183

Index 197

The Text

Online: http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm

Type: Book

Language: English

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.

Editions: 2 Editions

ISBN: 0262002744 9780262002745 0262220741 9780262220743

OCLC: 56880369

Related Subjects: Technological innovations -- Economic aspects. | Diffusion of innovations. | Democracy.

Participants

Steve Perkins University of Sydney

Recent Activity

• Neil Postman: Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change
• Eric Von Hippel:Democratizing Innovation

See also

• w:Democratizing Innovation

External links

• http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/books.htm - Chinese translation available as well as places to order text from.
• http://worldcat.org/oclc/56880369&referer=one_hit - Worldcat entry
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:20060123-Eric.von.Hippel-Democratizing.Innovation.ogg