Eric von Hippel
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Eric von Hippel (born August 27, 1941) is an economist and a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, specializing in the nature and economics of distributed and open innovation. He is best known for his work developing the concept of user innovation – that end-users, rather than manufacturers, are responsible for a large amount of new innovation. In order to describe this phenomenon, he introduced the term lead user in 1986. His work has applications in business strategy and free/open source software.
[edit] Major works
- The Sources of Innovation (1988) ISBN 0-19-509422-0, Oxford University Press PDF
- Democratizing Innovation (2005) ISBN 0-262-22074-1, Creative Commons PDF
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- UserInnovation.dk The largest resource center for user innovation
- Eric von Hippel's homepage at MIT.
- Available research papers.
- OpenInnovators.de - die erste Commnunity zu Open Innovation im deutschsprachigen Raum.
- The Economics of Open Content Symposium: New Models of Creative Production in the Digital Age Collaboration and the Marketplace
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