| |||||||||||||||
Frequently Bought Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating And Profiting from Technology by Henry William Chesbrough |
Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape by Henry Chesbrough |
by Henry Chesbrough
|
by Clayton M. Christensen
|
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M. Christensen |
Editorial Reviews
Review
"An important and interesting book. Meeting customers' needs through successful innovation is an extremely difficult challenge. Von Hippel provides a powerful method for understanding customers' needs when the mass of potential users may not yet understand their own needs."--Sloan Management Review
"An important study."--Robert J. Samuelson, Newsweek
"Each [of the book's two major studies] opens up new vistas on technical change, and for scholars interested in that topic this is must reading."--Journal of Economic Literature
"A path-breaking study."--Inc.
"This topic is important in modern business and industry, and the results of von Hippel's research could have wide-ranging implications for the way top management perceives the role of research and development....The book can be read by a broad audience--managers, graduate and undergraduate students, and thoughtful general readers."--Choice
"An important reference for future work on the characteristics of process innovation....Von Hippel's argument provides innovation managers with a powerful tool for identifying and addressing the nature of change that is needed within specific organizational structures."--RandD Management
"This book presents the results of pathbreaking research on two important topics. Von Hippel's research on the role of users in industrial invention, and, more generally, on the broader question of the locus of inventive activity in what the French call a filiere has changed the way that scholars of technological advance have looked at those questions. His more recent work, on technology sharing, has brought light to an aspect of technical change that scholars had not seen or understood before. This book will have a significant impact."--Richard R. Nelson, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
"This book should be of widespread use to academic scholars and industrial managers interested in the fundamental processes of industrial innovation in the modern economy."--Edwin Mansfield, Director, Center for Economics and Technology and Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
"Exciting new perspectives on the sources of innovation. The author's rich technological background and insight allow him to explain fundamental aspects of the innovation process that have been inaccessible to other researchers."--Anne P. Carter, Chair, Department of Economics, Brandeis University
"Von Hippel has made his study accessible to a wide variety of readers interested in better understanding the sources of innovation."--Technology and Culture
"An important study."--Robert J. Samuelson, Newsweek
"Each [of the book's two major studies] opens up new vistas on technical change, and for scholars interested in that topic this is must reading."--Journal of Economic Literature
"A path-breaking study."--Inc.
"This topic is important in modern business and industry, and the results of von Hippel's research could have wide-ranging implications for the way top management perceives the role of research and development....The book can be read by a broad audience--managers, graduate and undergraduate students, and thoughtful general readers."--Choice
"An important reference for future work on the characteristics of process innovation....Von Hippel's argument provides innovation managers with a powerful tool for identifying and addressing the nature of change that is needed within specific organizational structures."--RandD Management
"This book presents the results of pathbreaking research on two important topics. Von Hippel's research on the role of users in industrial invention, and, more generally, on the broader question of the locus of inventive activity in what the French call a filiere has changed the way that scholars of technological advance have looked at those questions. His more recent work, on technology sharing, has brought light to an aspect of technical change that scholars had not seen or understood before. This book will have a significant impact."--Richard R. Nelson, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
"This book should be of widespread use to academic scholars and industrial managers interested in the fundamental processes of industrial innovation in the modern economy."--Edwin Mansfield, Director, Center for Economics and Technology and Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
"Exciting new perspectives on the sources of innovation. The author's rich technological background and insight allow him to explain fundamental aspects of the innovation process that have been inaccessible to other researchers."--Anne P. Carter, Chair, Department of Economics, Brandeis University
"Von Hippel has made his study accessible to a wide variety of readers interested in better understanding the sources of innovation."--Technology and Culture
Product Description
It has long been assumed that new product innovations are typically developed by product manufacturers, an assumption that has inevitably had a major impact on innovation-related research and activities ranging from how firms organize their research and development to how governments measure innovation. In this synthesis of his seminal research, von Hippel challenges that basic assumption and demonstrates that innovation occurs in different places in different industries. Presenting a series of studies showing that end-users, material suppliers, and others are the typical sources of innovation in some fields, von Hippel explores why this variation in the "functional" sources of innovation occurs and how it might be predicted. He also proposes and tests some implications of replacing a manufacturer-as-innovator assumption with a view of the innovation process as predictably distributed across users, manufacturers, and suppliers. Innovation, he argues, will take place where there is greatest economic benefit to the innovator.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
› Visit Amazon's Eric von Hippel Page
› Visit Amazon's Eric von Hippel Page
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
It has long been assumed that product innovations are typically developed by product manufacturers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
process equipment innovations, process machinery innovations, shovel users, innovating users, preforming tooling, hydraulic bucket control, minor improvement innovations, distributed innovation process, wafer spinner, major improvement innovations, double condenser lens, tractor shovels, lead user group, wire termination equipment, shovel manufacturers, automated clinical chemistry analyzers, pultrusion industry, user group concept, lead user concept, pultrusion process, column support material, objective pole piece, automatic diameter control, displaced sales, planetary final drive Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
User Manufacturer, United States, Eric von Hippel, Abbott Laboratories, Innovation Type, New York, Sloan School of Management, Prisoner's Dilemma, Cambridge University Press, Study of the British Experience, Total Gas, World War, Government Printing Office, Management Science, Basic Industry, Case Outline, Department of Commerce, General Electric, Journal of Experimental Psychology, National Science Foundation, New Haven, Parts Suppliers, Plastics Industry, Research Policy, The Kline Guide New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
It has long been assumed that product innovations are typically developed by product manufacturers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
process equipment innovations, process machinery innovations, shovel users, innovating users, preforming tooling, hydraulic bucket control, minor improvement innovations, distributed innovation process, wafer spinner, major improvement innovations, double condenser lens, tractor shovels, lead user group, wire termination equipment, shovel manufacturers, automated clinical chemistry analyzers, pultrusion industry, user group concept, lead user concept, pultrusion process, column support material, objective pole piece, automatic diameter control, displaced sales, planetary final drive Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
User Manufacturer, United States, Eric von Hippel, Abbott Laboratories, Innovation Type, New York, Sloan School of Management, Prisoner's Dilemma, Cambridge University Press, Study of the British Experience, Total Gas, World War, Government Printing Office, Management Science, Basic Industry, Case Outline, Department of Commerce, General Electric, Journal of Experimental Psychology, National Science Foundation, New Haven, Parts Suppliers, Plastics Industry, Research Policy, The Kline Guide New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 40
books:
See all 40 books this book cites
100
books
cite this book:
See all 100 books citing this book
- The Economic Impact of the Patent System: A Study of the British Experience (Department of Applied Economics Monographs) by C. T. Taylor on 6 pages
- Early History of the Electron Microscope by Ladislaus Laszlo Marton on 4 pages
- Steel: Upheaval in a Basic Industry by Donald Barnett on page 80, page 92, and Back Matter
- Design and Marketing Of New Products (2nd Edition) by Glen L. Urban on page 75, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter on page 55, and Back Matter
See all 40 books this book cites
- Innovation Management in the Knowledge Economy (Series on Technology Management) by N. Collings on page 134, page 208, and page 234
- Business Models: A Strategic Management Approach by Allan Afuah on page 42, page 83, and page 171
- Essays in Honor of Edwin Mansfield: The Economics of R&D, Innovation, and Technological Change by Albert N. Link on page 59, page 107, and page 231
- Perspectives in Operations Management: Essays in Honor of Elwood S. Buffa by Rakesh K. Sarin on page 143, and page 145
- Multiaccess, Mobility and Teletraffic in Wireless by Ezio Biglieri on page 8, and page 10
See all 100 books citing this book
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?
 |
59% buy the item featured on this page: The Sources of Innovation $29.10 |
 |
25% buy Democratizing Innovation $9.41 |
 |
7% buy Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating And Profiting from Technology $8.59 |
 |
6% buy Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm$35.95 |
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
 |
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Listmania!
Product Information from the Amapedia Community
Beta (What's this?)Be the first person to add an article about this item at Amapedia.com.
› See featured Amapedia.com articles
Look for Similar Items by Category
Look for Similar Items by Subject
Your Recent History
(What's this?)|
After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. |
