The Sources of Innovation (The Executive Bookshelf from the Sloan Management Review)
By Eric von Hippel.
Description
It has long been assumed that new product innovations are typically developed by product manufacturers, an assumption that has inevitably had a major impact on innovation-related research and activities ranging from how firms organize their research and development to how governments measure innovation. In this synthesis of his seminal research, von Hippel challenges that basic assumption and demonstrates that innovation occurs in different places in different industries. Presenting a series of studies showing that end-users, material suppliers, and others are the typical sources of innovat...
ISBN(s)
0195040856, 9780195040852
