People Don't Need a Profit Motive to Innovate

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von Hippel, Eric A.
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Abstract
The finding: Innovations developed by individuals who give them away increasingly compete with patent-protected, for-profit innovations in many parts of the economy.
Date issued
2011-11
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77938
Department
Sloan School of Management
Journal
Harvard Business Review
Publisher
Harvard Business Publishing
Citation
Von Hippel, Eric A. "People Don't Need a Profit Motive to Innovate." Harvard Business Review (2011).
Version: Author's final manuscript
ISSN
0017-8012
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