Open User Innovation

Eric von Hippel

Chapter Chapter 9 in Handbook of the Economics of Innovation, 2010, vol. 1, pp 411-427 from Elsevier

Abstract: Almost 30years ago, researchers began a systematic study of innovation by end users and user firms. At that time, the phenomenon was generally regarded as a minor oddity. Today, it is clear that innovation by users, generally openly shared, is a very powerful and general phenomenon. It is rapidly growing due to continuing advances in computing and communication technologies. It is becoming both an important rival to and an important feedstock for producer-centered innovation in many fields. In this chapter, I provide an overview of what the international research community now understands about this phenomenon.

Keywords: collaborative innovation; open innovation; user innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 O32 O34 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7218(10)01009-9

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