Welfare Implications of User Innovation

Joachim Henkel () and Eric Hippel
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Joachim Henkel: University of Munich
Eric Hippel: MIT Sloan School of Managent Cambridge

A chapter in Essays in Honor of Edwin Mansfield, 2005, pp 45-59 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Innovation by users is now understood to be an important part of innovative activity in the economy. In this paper we explore the implications of adding innovation by users to existing models of social welfare that currently assume innovation by manufacturers only. We find this addition removes several inefficiencies, and that social welfare is likely to be increased by the presence of user innovation. Implications for policies that can impact users’ freedom to innovate are discussed.

Keywords: user innovation; product diversity; social welfare; inefficiencies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1007/0-387-25022-0_5

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