Perspectives on user innovation

There has been a dramatic shift towards more open, democratised, forms of innovation that are driven by networks of individual users. Users are now visibly active within all stages of the innovation process and across many types of industrial output, and their influence is spreading across many sect...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: World Scientific (Firm)
Other Authors: Flowers, Stephen., Henwood, Flis, 1957-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: London : Singapore : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., c2010.
Series:Series on technology management ; v. 16.
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/P778#t=toc
Table of Contents:
  • ch. 1. Introduction : Perspectives on user innovation / Stephen Flowers and Flis Henwood
  • pt. I. Exploring the role(s) of users in innovation. ch. 2. The historical construction of user innovation / Georgina Voss. ch. 3. The dynamics of user innovation : Drivers and impediments of innovation activities / Christina Raasch, Cornelius Herstatt and Phillip Lock. ch. 4. Intermediaries, users and social learning in technological innovation / James Stewart and Sampsa Hyysalo
  • pt. II. Drawing users into the innovation process. ch. 5. User-centric innovations in new product development - Systematic identification of lead users harnessing interactive and collaborative online-tools / Volker Bilgram, Alexander Brem and Kai-Ingo Voigt. ch. 6. Proactive involvement of consumers in innovation : Selecting appropriate techniques / Karen L. Janssen and Ben Dankbaar. ch. 7. User-producer interactions in emerging pharmaceutical and food innovations / E. H. M. Moors ... [et al.]
  • pt. III. New directions in user innovation research and policy. ch. 8. Outlaw community innovations / Celine Schulz and Stefan Wagner. ch. 9. User innovation : The developing policy research agenda / Stephen Flowers. ch. 10. The freedom-fighters : How incumbent corporations are attempting to control user-innovation / Viktor Braun and Cornelius Herstatt.