| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 263 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Series on technology management ; v. 16
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Series on technology management ; v. 16.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : perspectives on user innovation / Stephen Flowers and Flis Henwood -- The historical construction of user innovation / Georgina Voss -- The dynamics of user innovation : drivers and impediments of innovation activities / Christina Raasch, Cornelius Herstatt and Phillip Lock -- Intermediaries, users and social learning in technological innovation / James Stewart and Sampsa Hyysalo -- User-centric innovations in new product develpment--systematic identification of lead users harnessing interactive and collaborative online-tools / Volker Bilgram, Alexander Brem and Kai-Ingo Voigt -- Proactive involvement of consumers in innovation : selecting appropriate techniques / Karen L. Janssen and Ben Dankbaar -- User-producer interactions in emerging pharmaceutical and food innovations / E.H.M. Moors [and others] -- Outlaw community innovations / Celine Schulz and Stefan Wagner -- User innovation : the developing policy research agenda / Stephen Flowers -- The freedom-fighters : how incumbent corporations are attempting to control user-innovation / Viktor Braun and Cornelius Herstatt. |
| Summary |
There has been a dramatic shift towards more open, democratised, forms of innovation that are driven by networks of individual users. Users are now visibly active within all stages of the innovation process and across many types of industrial output, and their influence is spreading across many sectors. They are actively engaged with firms in the co-creation of products and services, and firms can no longer control the innovation agenda. This developing phenomenon has large implications for our understanding of the management of innovation. Drawing on practice-based insights, together with the. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Diffusion of innovations.
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Diffusion of innovations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Flowers, Stephen.
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Henwood, Flis, 1957-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Perspectives on user innovation. London : Imperial College Press, ©2010 9781848166998 (OCoLC)672086099 |
| ISBN |
9781848167001 (electronic book) |
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1848167008 (electronic book) |
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9781848166998 |
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1848166990 |
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