Eric Von Hippel:Democratizing Innovation

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Chapters

 * 1) Introduction and Overview  1 -  Discuss
 * 2) Development of Products by Lead Users  19 - Discuss
 * 3) Why Many Users Want Custom Products  33 - Discuss
 * 4) Users' Innovate-or-Buy Decisions 45 - Discuss
 * 5) Users' Low-Cost Innovation Niches 63 - Discuss
 * 6) Why Users Often Freely Reveal Their Innovations 77 - Discuss
 * 7) Innovation Communities   93 - Discuss
 * 8) Adapting Policy to User Innovation 107 - Discuss
 * 9) Democratizing Innovation   121 - Discuss
 * 10) Application: Searching for Lead User Innovations 133 - Discuss
 * 11) Application: Toolkits for User Innovation and Custom Design  147 - Discuss
 * 12) Linking User Innovation to Other Phenomena and Fields  165 - Discuss

Notes   179

Bibliography  183

Index 197

The Text
Online: http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm

Type:	Book

Language:	English

Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.

Editions:	2 Editions

ISBN:	0262002744 9780262002745 0262220741 9780262220743

OCLC:	56880369

Related Subjects: Technological innovations -- Economic aspects. | Diffusion of innovations. | Democracy.

Participants
Steve Perkins University of Sydney

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