In this paper explores the conditions favorable to user innovationnetworks are often present in the economy.

In this paper explores how the mundane but necessary task offield support for open source Apache server software is organized,and how and why users are motivated to participate in providing it.

3M correctly prides itself on being an innovative, technology-basedcompany, and they have an excellent track over the years with respect toinnovation ...

To solve a problem, needed information and problem-solving capabilities must be brought together... [Eric von Hippel]<p>

When products, processes and services are introduced for the first time totheir intended use environments, things often go wrong: Software is found to haveunanticipated "bugs"; process machines that worked very well in the developmentlaboratory promptly fail when first installed in a factory,...

Innovation projects are "partitioned" into smaller tasks. Precisely where the boundaries between such tasks are placed can affect project outcome and the efficiency of task performance due to associated changes in the problem-solvinginterdependence among tasks....