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"Democratizing Innovation" - available for download

By Niti Bhan - May 4, 2005

in Object Culture

From the Innovation Weblog, comes the news that MIT's Eric von Hippel has put up his new book as a free PDF download under the Creative Commons license. The book, Democratizing Innovation, describes "how the emerging proccess of user-centered, democratized innovation works...[and about] how innovation by users provides a very necessary complement to and feedstock for manufacturer innovation." The first paragraph of his first chapter explains, "When I say that innovation is being democratized, I mean that users of products and services - both firms and individual consumers -are increasingly able to innovate for themselves. User-centered innovation processes offer great advantages over the manufacturer-centric innovation development systems that have been the mainstay of commerce for hundreds of years. Users that innovate can develop exactly what they want, rather than relying on manufacturers to act as their (often very imperfect) agents. Moreover, individual users do not have to develop everything they need on their own: they can benefit from innovations developed and freely shared by others." Looking for a good read on Lead User research and Innovation, start here.

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