Users invent new products and product categories, but the assumption has been that manufacturers will supplant users if their innovation is of value to many. The current paper examines Russian all terrain vehicles “karakats” to discuss a case of an era of extended user dominated technology...

Acknowledgments -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Introduction to the new production of users / Sampsa Hyysalo, Torben Elgaard Jensen and Nelly Oudshoorn -- Rethinking and extending theoretical approaches to the production of users in innovation -- Protecting the right to...

This paper explores the role of intermediaries in the development and appropriation of new technologies. We focus on intermediaries that facilitate user innovation, and the linking of user innovation into supply side activities. We review findings on intermediaries in some of our studies and...