Book ID: CBB698417511

Revolutionizing innovation: Users, communities, and open innovation (2015)

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Harhoff, Dietmar (Author)
Lakhani, Karim R. (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 577
Language: English

The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process that emphasizes users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to solve important technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation, pioneered by the economist Eric von Hippel, counters the dominant paradigm, which cast the profit-seeking incentives of firms as the main driver of technical change. In a series of influential writings, von Hippel and colleagues found empirical evidence that flatly contradicted the producer-centered model of innovation. Since then, the study of user-driven innovation has continued and expanded, with further empirical exploration of a distributed model of innovation that includes communities and platforms in a variety of contexts and with the development of theory to explain the economic underpinnings of this still emerging paradigm. This volume provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of the field of user and open innovation, reflecting advances in the field over the last several decades. The contributors -- including many colleagues of Eric von Hippel -- offer both theoretical and empirical perspectives from such diverse fields as economics, the history of science and technology, law, management, and policy. The empirical contexts for their studies range from household goods to financial services. After discussing the fundamentals of user innovation, the contributors cover communities and innovation; legal aspects of user and community innovation; new roles for user innovators; user interactions with firms; and user innovation in practice, describing experiments, toolkits, and crowdsourcing, and crowdfunding.

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Authors & Contributors
Vítor Corado Simões
Sara Garcia Santamaria
Jared Moore
Norman W. Garrick
Peine, Alexander
Paula Urze
Concepts
Technological innovation
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
Users of technology
Technology and society
Research and development (R&D)
Cross-national comparison
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
India
Great Britain
South Korea
Cuba
South America
Institutions
Pallned Parenthood Federation of America
Industrial Technology Research Institute- ITRI
Korea Institute of Science and Technology - KIST
Fundação para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia
United States. Department of Defense
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