The Sources of Innovation
by Eric von Hippel · first published 1988
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…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 Information Theory, Inference, and…
on “Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?” ↗…place with a different, 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…
on “Don't Search for a Job, Create One Yourself” ↗The Sources of Innovation by von Hippel [1] tries to answer this question of when innovation comes from users vs. manufacturers vs. suppliers. The book is nearly unreadable, but the topic is interesting. [1] http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www-old/books/sources/SofI.pdf
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