Economic growth is highly dependent on technological progress
and innovation, yet the sources from which these innovations
originate are still largely misunderstood and untapped. Recent
research has demonstrated that users, rather than manufacturers,
are often a critical source of innovation in numerous fields from
extreme sports to medical devices to software. This book
systematically identifies the most important barriers to
user-innovation and critically evaluates the democratization of
innovation argument by critically assessing the main legal,
economic, technological, and societal barriers to user-innovation
for the first time and proposing alternative possibilities.
Through original research the author reveals the dynamics of
user-innovation and offers strategies for minimizing those factors
that inhibit and stifle the spread of this phenomenon. From this
analysis it becomes clear that user-innovation has become more
difficult over time and that the problem is now of how
manufacturers can enable users to overcome the discussed barriers
and simultaneously benefit from such consumer-driven activities.
Arguing that licenses are not just an important technology
commercialization instrument but are tools critical to generating
innovations, the author explains how licenses can in certain
situations be employed to help users overcome some of the barriers
to user-innovation. User-Innovation: Barriers to Democratization
and IP Licensing is a practical guidebook as well as a startlingly
original work of scholarship that will be essential reading for
years to come.
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