We also find that consumer product innovation spans a wide range of fields, from toys, to tools, to sporting equipment, and to personal solutions for medical problems: clearly, consumer innovation is not a niche phenomenon,” Von Hippel and two European colleagues wrote. “We discover that consumer-developed innovations generally diffuse freely from the perspective of consumer-innovators. Very few consumers protect their innovations by patents or other means, or receive payments for them.
Via The Atlantic (via modernandmaterialthings)
Note: Von Hippel originated these ideas in the 70s. Not too shabby. Dig.
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jnomics said:
Check, Democratizing Innovation (Von Hippel) and The Sources of User Innovation (Von Hippel). His work is all the more profound when you know he developed the ideas in the 70s.
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