Democratizing innovation
by Eric von Hippel · first published 2005
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Innovation is rapidly becoming democratized. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. Eric von Hippel looks closely at this emerging system of user-centred innovation.
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DEMOCRATIZING INNOVATION- by Eric Von Hippel talks about this and uses a few extreme sports (including the birth of mountain biking) as examples: http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm edit: Just checked and kitesurfing…
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on “Do you read?” ↗Eric von Hippel's book "Democratizing Innovation" talks about this. The book is primarily about how end users more than ever are driving innovation, but he provides plenty of historical evidence of this being possible for a long time. There is a chapter…
on “Farmers Didn't Invent Tractors. They Were Busy Farming.” ↗…http://www.capitalism.net/Capitalism/CAPITALISM_Internet.pdf The Works of Lysander Spooner. http://lysanderspooner.org/node/2 The Machinery of Freedom David Friedman. - http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf Democratizing Innovation - Eric Von Hippel. http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm The Sources of Innovation - Eric Von Hippel. http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/sources.htm Introduction to Information Retrieval - http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/html/htmledition/irbook.html…
on “Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?” ↗Nonsense. User-led innovation can create breakthroughs, just read Democratizing Innovation.
on “User-Led Innovation Can't Create Breakthroughs; Just Ask Apple and Ikea” ↗…proactive method. However, I am not the one inventing this thing up just to prove something to companies. My statements are based on Eric Von Hippel's work from the 80s: "The Sources of Innovation" and "Democratizing Innovation" - The Lead User Theory. And you need to see that this is not something new, as many are already doing it. The only thing is - they have to ask for it - explicitly like Dell and Starbucks, implicitly…
on “Don't Search for a Job, Create One Yourself” ↗…considered useful in the sense you describe for rewarding innovation (e.g. defensive patents to stop others from blocking access to your own innovations). I believe the research was cited in Eric von Hippel's Democratizing Innovation, ah here we are from, Chapter 6, " The real-world value of patent protection has been studied for more than 40 years. Various researchers have found that, with a few exceptions, inno- vators do not…
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