Gain Access The Sources Of Innovation Written By Hippel Von In Manuscript

Ebook at sitelink mit. edu/evhippel/www/sourc The book covers many concepts that are starting to float around open innovation, Von Hippel discusses different sources of innovation and provides an economic explanation for it, Many of the concepts that he develops in this future work can be seen in a beginning stage in this book.


The most exiting chapter are based on his discussion on informal trading of knowhow and how to shift the functional source of innovation.
Both can be interpreted as

the initial stage of what later become free revealing in the open source community and the implementation of toolkits for user innovation.


The book covers many concepts that are important in the field of user innovation and in a sense to open innovation.
It is easy to read and an important reference for people involved in the innovation field, regardless if you are a practitioner or a researcher.

It has long been assumed that new product innovations are typically developed by product manufacturers, an assumption that has inevitably had a major impact on innovationrelated research and activities ranging from how firms organize their research and development to how governments measure
innovation.
In this synthesis of his seminal research, von Hippel challenges that basic assumption and demonstrates that innovation occurs in different places in different industries.
Presenting a series of studies showing that endusers, material suppliers, and others are the typical sources of
innovation in some fields, von Hippel explores why this variation in the "functional" sources of innovation occurs and how it might be predicted.
He also proposes and tests some implications of replacing a manufacturerasinnovator assumption with a view of the innovation process as predictably
distributed across users, manufacturers, and suppliers.
Innovation, he argues, will take place where there is greatest economic benefit to the innovator, .