A comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of the emerging paradigm
of user and open innovation, offering both theoretical and
empirical perspectives. The last two decades have witnessed an
extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the
innovation process that emphasizes users over producers. Large
parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users,
communities, and open innovation approaches to solve important
technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation,
pioneered by the economist Eric von Hippel, counters the dominant
paradigm, which cast the profit-seeking incentives of firms as the
main driver of technical change. In a series of influential
writings, von Hippel and colleagues found empirical evidence that
flatly contradicted the producer-centered model of innovation.
Since then, the study of user-driven innovation has continued and
expanded, with further empirical exploration of a distributed model
of innovation that includes communities and platforms in a variety
of contexts and with the development of theory to explain the
economic underpinnings of this still emerging paradigm. This volume
provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of the field of
user and open innovation, reflecting advances in the field over the
last several decades. The contributors-including many colleagues of
Eric von Hippel-offer both theoretical and empirical perspectives
from such diverse fields as economics, the history of science and
technology, law, management, and policy. The empirical contexts for
their studies range from household goods to financial services.
After discussing the fundamentals of user innovation, the
contributors cover communities and innovation; legal aspects of
user and community innovation; new roles for user innovators; user
interactions with firms; and user innovation in practice,
describing experiments, toolkits, and crowdsourcing, and
crowdfunding. Contributors Efe Aksuyek, Yochai Benkler, James
Bessen, Joern H. Block, Annika Bock, Helena Canhao, Jeroen P. J. de
Jong, Emmanuelle Fauchart, Dominique Foray, Nikolaus Franke, Johann
Fuller, Helena Garriga, Fred Gault, Fredrik Hacklin, Dietmar
Harhoff, Joachim Henkel, Cornelius Herstatt, Christoph Hienerth,
Venkat Kuppuswamy, Karim R. Lakhani, Christopher Lettl, Christian
Luthje, Ethan Mollick, Hidehiko Nishikawa, Alessandro Nuvolari,
Susumu Ogawa, Pedro Oliveira, Stefan Perkmann Berger, Frank Piller,
Christina Raasch, Susanne Roiser, Fabrizio Salvador, Pamela
Samuelson, Tim Schweisfurth, Sonali K. Shah, Christoph Stockstrom,
Katherine J. Strandburg, Stefan Thomke, Andrew W. Torrance, Mary
Tripsas, Georg von Krogh
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