Perspectives on user innovation /
editors, Stephen Flowers, Flis Henwood
- London : Imperial College Press, 2010
- vi, 263 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Series on technology management ; v. 16 .
- Series on technology management ; v. 16 .
Includes bibliographical references and index
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 ... [et al.] -- 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
There has been a dramatic shift towards more open forms of innovation. Drawing on practice-based insights, together with theoretical approaches developed in innovation studies & science & technology studies, this book brings together a collection of recent work that examines key aspects of this model of innovation