Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the nature and policy implications of the shift from producer‐centred product and service design to innovation by the user, specifically internet‐supported collaborative design by user communities. Design/methodology/approach – An...

In this paper the authors explore the incentives that usersmight have to freely reveal their proprietary innovations. They develop agame-theoretic model to explore the effect of these incentives on users´ decisions to reveal or hide their proprietary information.

In this paper explores the conditions favorable to user innovationnetworks are often present in the economy.

In this paper explores how the mundane but necessary task offield support for open source Apache server software is organized,and how and why users are motivated to participate in providing it.

3M correctly prides itself on being an innovative, technology-basedcompany, and they have an excellent track over the years with respect toinnovation ...

To solve a problem, needed information and problem-solving capabilities must be brought together... [Eric von Hippel]<p>

This paper integrates market research within this lead user methodology and report a test of it in the rapidly evolving field of computer-aided systems for the design of printed circuit boards (PC-CAD).

This paper studies the relationship between the sources ofinnovation and incentives.

"Informal" know-how trading is the extensive exchange of proprietaryknow-how by informal networks of process engineers in rival (and non-rival)firms ...

The literature on new goods and social welfare generally assumes thatmanufacturers develop innovations. But innovation by users has been foundto also be an important part of innovative activity in the economy. In this Paperwe explore the impact of users as a source of innovation on product...