Free Innovation

"In this book, Eric von Hippel, author of the influential Democratizing Innovation, integrates new theory and research findings into the framework of a "free innovation paradigm." Free innovation, as he defines it, involves innovations developed by consumers who are self-rewarded for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hippel, Eric von (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2016
Cambridge, MA : 2016.
Subjects:
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423014406719
Table of Contents:
  • Introducing free innovation
  • Scale and self-rewarding nature of free innovation
  • Viability of individual and collaborative free innovation
  • Innovation pioneering by free innovators
  • Diffusion shortfall in free innovation
  • Free and producer paradigm interactions
  • Competition for free innovator resources
  • Large scope of free innovation
  • Factors promoting free innovator success
  • Preserving free innovatorsa' strong legal rights
  • Next steps in free innovation research, policy, and practice
  • Appendix 1: Household sector innovation survey questionnaire
  • Appendix 2: Model of the user innovation paradigm : impacts on markets and welfare
  • References
  • Index.