Democratizing Innovation
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Author(s)
von Hippel, Eric A.
Date Issued
2005
Publisher
MIT Press
Citation
Hippel, Eric von. Democratizing innovation. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2005.
Version
Final published version
Abstract
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.
MIT Department
Sloan School of Management
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