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Efficiency of consumer (household sector) vs. producer innovation
Hienerth, Christoph; Hippel, Eric von; Jensen, Morten Berg - 2012 - This revision September, 2012
In this paper we report upon a first empirical exploration of the relative efficiency of innovation development by … product users vs. product producers. In a study of over 50 years of product innovation in the whitewater kayaking field, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579600
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The prevalence of user innovation and free innovation transfers : implications for statistical indicators and innovation policy
Gault, Fred; Hippel, Eric von - 2009
Statistical indicators have not kept pace with innovation research. Today, it is well understood that many industrial … statistical indicators will empower policymakers to take advantage of the latest research findings in their innovation … showed that data on both user innovation and the transfers of these innovations could be reliably collected, and that novel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003948294
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Users as service innovators : the case of banking services
Hippel, Eric von; Oliveira, Pedro - 2009
importance of services innovation by users, focusing on the field of commercial and retail banking services. We find that 55% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003889077
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Finding commercially attractive user innovations : a test of lead user theory
Franke, Nikolaus (contributor); Hippel, Eric von (contributor) - 2005
Firms and governments are increasingly interested in learning to exploit the value of lead user innovations for commercial advantage. Improvements to lead user theory are needed to inform and guide these efforts. In this paper we empirically test and confirm the basic tenants of lead user...
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